Strategic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Strategic \Stra*te"gic\, Strategical \Stra*te"gic*al\, a. [Gr. ?
     of or for a general: cf. F. strat['e]gique.]
     Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice. --
     {Stra*te"gic*al*ly}, adv.
     [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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  strategic
       adj 1: relating to or concerned with strategy; "strategic weapon";
              "the islands are of strategic importance"; "strategic
              considerations" [syn: {strategical}]
       2: highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or
          plan of action especially in war; "a strategic chess
          move"; "strategic withdrawal"; "strategic bombing
          missions"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "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