divide and conquer

• Verb

  To use a combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.

• Noun
• Proverb

conquer

1. To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
2. To acquire by force of arms, win in war; to become ruler of; to subjugate.
3. To overcome an abstract obstacle.
4. To gain, win, or obtain by effort.

and

• Conj

  1. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  2. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  3. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  4. (obsolete) As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  5. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  6. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  7. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  8. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  9. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  10. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  11. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  12. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
  13. Expressing a condition.
  14. (obsolete) Expressing a condition.
  15. Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.

• Noun
• Noun
• Verb

divide

• Verb

  1. To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
  2. To share (something) by dividing it.
  3. To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
  4. To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
  5. To be a divisor of.
  6. To separate into two or more parts.
  7. Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
  8. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
  9. (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
  10. (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
  11. To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
  12. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
  13. To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

• Noun