strategic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: stra=te=gic

CIDE DICTIONARY

strategic, a. [Gr. of or for a general: cf. F. stratégique.].

 Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice.  [1913 Webster]

Strategic line (Mil.), a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point (Mil.), any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor an advantage over his opponent, as a mountain pass, a junction of rivers or roads, a fortress, etc.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

strategic, adj.
1 of or serving the ends of strategy (strategic considerations).
2 (of materials) essential in fighting a war.
3 (of bombing or weapons) done or for use against an enemy's home territory as a longer-term military objective (opp. TACTICAL).

Idiom

strategic defence initiative a projected US system of defence against nuclear weapons using satellites.

Derivative

strategical adj. strategically adv. strategics n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.).

Etymology

F strat{eacute}gique f. Gk strategikos (as STRATAGEM)

THESAURUS

strategic

Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, arranged, artful, astute, blueprinted, cagey, calculated, canny, cardinal, charted, clever, contrived, crafty, critical, crucial, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designed, designing, devised, diplomatic, feline, figured, foxy, guileful, in the works, ingenious, insidious, inventive, key, knowing, methodized, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, pawky, planned, plotted, politic, principal, projected, rationalized, ready, resourceful, scheduled, schematized, scheming, serpentine, set, shaped, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategetic, subtile, subtle, supple, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vital, vulpine, wary, wily, worked out

ROGET THESAURUS

strategic

Plan

N plan, scheme, design, project, proposal, proposition, suggestion, resolution, motion, precaution, deep- laid plan, system, organization, germ, sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon, rough cast, rough draft, draught copy, copy, proof, revise, drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart (representation), forecast, program, programme, prospectus, carte du pays, card, bill, protocol, order of the day, list of agenda, bill of fare, base of operations, platform, plank, slate, ticket, role, policy, contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device, pipelaying, stratagem, trick, alternative, loophole, shift, last shift, measure, step, stroke, stroke of policy, master stroke, trump card, court card, cheval de bataille, great gun, coup, coup d'etat, clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke, bright thought, bright idea, intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination, subplot, underplot, counterplot, schemer, schemist, schematist, strategist, machinator, projector, artist, promoter, designer, conspirator, intrigant, planned, strategic, strategical, planning, prepared, in course of preparation, under consideration, on the tapis, on the carpet, on the floor.

Cunning

N cunning, craft, cunningness, craftiness, subtlety, artificiality, maneuvering, temporization, circumvention, chicane, chicanery, sharp practice, knavery, jugglery, concealment, guile, doubling, duplicity, foul play, diplomacy, politics, Machiavelism, jobbery, backstairs influence, art, artifice, device, machination, plot, maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile, trick, trickery, ruse, ruse de guerre, finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion, white lie, juggle, tour de force, tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers, espieglerie, net, trap, Ulysses, Machiavel, sly boots, fox, reynard, Scotchman, Jew, Yankee, intriguer, intrigant, floater, Indian giver, keener, repeater, cunning, crafty, artful, skillful, subtle, feline, vulpine, cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent, deep, deep laid, profound, designing, contriving, intriguing, strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving, artificial, tricky, tricksy, wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy, underhand, subdolous, deceitful, slippery as an eel, evasive, crooked, arch, pawky, shrewd, acute, sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle, canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff, tactful, diplomatic, politic, polite, cunningly, slyly, slily, on the sly, by a side wind, diamond cut diamond, a' bis ou a blanc, fin contre fin, something is rotten in the state of Denmark.