logistics

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lo=gis=tics

CIDE DICTIONARY

logistics, n. 

•  That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy.  H. L. Scott.  [1913 Webster]
•  The planning and coordination of the movement of materials, and other details of any large activity, such as a business or a political campaign.  [PJC]
•  A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

logistics, n.pl.
1 the organization of moving, lodging, and supplying troops and equipment.
2 the detailed organization and implementation of a plan or operation.

Derivative

logistic adj. logistical adj. logistically adv.

Etymology

F logistique f. loger lodge

THESAURUS

logistics

accouterment, action, amphibious operations, armament, catering, chandlery, combined operations, dry run, endowment, equipment, finding, fitting out, fluid operations, furnishing, furnishment, investment, maneuver, maneuvers, military operations, minor operations, mission, movement, operation, operations, outfitting, overseas operations, preparation, procurement, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, reinforcement, replenishment, resupply, retailing, selling, staff work, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, victualing, war game, war plans

ROGET THESAURUS

logistics

Warfare

N warfare, fighting, hostilities, war, arms, the sword, Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella, bloodshed, appeal to arms, appeal to the sword, ordeal of battle, wager of battle, ultima ratio regum, arbitrament of the sword, battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations, mobilization, state of siege, battlefield, theater of operations, warpath, art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation, generalship, soldiership, logistics, military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery, chivalry, gunpowder, shot, battle, tug of war, service, campaigning, active service, tented field, kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel, fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan, war-cry, war-whoop, battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom, calumet of war, word of command, password, watchword, passage d-armes, war to the death, war to the knife, guerre a mort, guerre a outrance, open war, internecine war, civil war, contending, contentious, armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie, sword in hand, in arms, under arms, up in arms, at war with, bristling with arms, in battle array, in open arms, in the field, embattled, battled, unpacific, unpeaceful, belligerent, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike, military, militant, soldier-like, soldierly, chivalrous, strategical, internecine, flagrante bello, in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth, at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet, Int, vae victis!, to arms!, to your tents O Israel!, the battle rages, a la guerre comme a la guerre, bis peccare in bello non licet, jus gladii, my voice is still for war, 'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it, my sentence is for open war, pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war, the cannons have their bowels full of wrath, the cannons aspit forth their iron indignation, the fire-eyed maid of smoky war, silent leges inter arma, si vis pacem para bellum.