English / phrase
divide and conquer
MEANING IN ENGLISH
a method of tackling a massive task by breaking it down into smaller parts and assigning them to different people; A strategy of breaking complex challenges into manageable portions or causing division among opponents to gain superiority.
In context
01
Faced with a massive hundred-page market audit, the consultants decided to divide and conquer to finish before Friday.
02
We adopted a divide and conquer strategy, assigning frontend design to Nadia and database architecture to Kamal.
Synonyms
Split tasks,partition duties,share the workload
Antonyms
Centralize,tackle monolithically,consolidate
Collocations
Divide and conquer approach,divide and conquer strategy,decide to divide and conquer