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strategic

strategic

519 4.9
Planned to help reach important long-term goals
  • adjective
  • /strəˈtiːdʒɪk/
translation icon : estratégico
  • In order to succeed, the company developed a strategic plan for the next five years.
  • strategic planning
  • a strategic plan
  • strategic thinking

So this, this was a huge strategic failure by the Democrats.

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Examples

  • It is part of our strategic plan to invest in Kenya.

  • So let's start with the strategic goals of the course.

  • And she was very strategic in everything she did.

  • But you would be better served to be strategic in your approach, right?

  • No, have a strategic plan about that.

  • I now sit on the board in a strategic guidance capacity.

  • So this, this was a huge strategic failure by the Democrats.

  • The methodology used helped the hospital achieve strategic control, increase the knowledge of key stakeholders, and improve performance.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The single greatest strategic threat is the weakness of the Afghan government.

    Academic text (2011)
  • It is a place, therefore, of enormous strategic significance.

Synonyms

strategical
vsstrategic
7.5

About a plan to reach long-term goals

is the same in meaning but differs only as an alternative adjective form

Compounds

1 6.0

Information people collect and study to help leaders plan long-term national or military actions

strategic operation
  • Specialized
1 7.0

A carefully planned military action to reach long-term goals

A series of talks between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit nuclear weapons

strategic buyout
  • Specialized
7.1

The purchase of one company by another to gain business benefits

7.2

A planned choice about using troops to gain an advantage in war

strategic warning
  • Specialized
7.4

A message that tells leaders about a possible attack so they can prepare

How Strategic

vital
403 3.5
strategic
519 4.9
useful
947 1.0
peripheral
16 6.5
irrelevant
355 3.6

Surface Forms

strategic positive
strategical positive

Morphology

strategic = strategy (transparent) = strategy + ic

Formed from the noun 'strategy' with the adjectival suffix '-ic', and the meaning ('relating to strategy or important for a plan') is directly derived.

Etymology

Strategic comes from an old Greek idea of a 'general' and an 'army' and shares the same root as strategy. Think of a general making a careful plan for a battle — something strategic is an important, well-planned move or place meant to help reach long-term goals.