strategicadj.n.

Brit.

/strəˈtiːdʒɪk/, U.S.

/strəˈtidʒɪk/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek στρατηγικός.

Etymology: < ancient Greek στρατηγικός of or for a general, (of a person) suited or fitted for command < στρατηγός strategos n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French stratégique (1777 or earlier as feminine noun, 1804 or earlier as adjective), German strategisch (1779 or earlier). Compare earlier strategics n., and also earlier strategy n.With use as noun compare ancient Greek ἡ στρατηγική (short for ἡ στρατηγικὴ τέχνη the strategic art).

A. adj.

a. Of or relating to military strategy; useful or important in relation to military strategy.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [adjective] > strategy

strategic1799

strategetic1804

strategetical1812

strategical1813

1799 Brit. Mil. Libr. Dec. 100 It has become a fundamental principle of our modern strategic system, to post the troops, if possible, on heights.

1825 J. A. Gilbert Expos. First Princ. Grand Mil. Combinations x. 67 Choosing a field of battle which has all the advantage of a good strategic position.

1894 Engineer 9 Mar. 199/1 The strategic railway connecting Tientsin with Shan-hai-Kwan.

1927 J. M. Keynes Ess. in Biogr. (1933) i. vi. 62 The strategic surrender, the deliberate withdrawal, the attempt to lure the enemy into a pocket where he could be taken in flank.

1974 H. Maclennan Rivers of Canada (rev. ed.) 24 The strategic necessity of securing the St. Lawrence as a high-road into the Ohio territory.

2012 N.Y. Times 4 Dec. a30/2 The Iranian nuclear issue, which Mr. Netanyahu considers the main strategic threat to Israel.

b. Of aerial bombing: targeted on an enemy's homeland with the intention of damaging the national infrastructure and destroying morale; (of an aircraft) designed or used for this purpose. Frequently contrasted with tactical (tactical adj. 1b).Frequently with reference to the bombing of cities and consequent civilian casualties originating during the First World War (1914–18) and widespread during (and often emblematic of) the Second World War (1939–45). Cf. area bombing n. at area n. Compounds 2, carpet bombing n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [adjective] > type of bombing

strategic1918

saturation1942

1918 Illustr. London News 15 June 14/1 Tactical bombing..may actually be at times of greater importance than strategic bombing of enemy countries.

1941 19th Cent. Sept. 163 Bombing of cities..is a true example of strategic bombing.

1961 Listener 14 Dec. 1012/1 If it becomes unwise..to consider basing MRBMs or strategic bombers in Europe, [etc.].

1993 Independent (Nexis) 26 July 10 A long-running row between the air force, which wanted to carry out the strategic bombing of Iraq, and the army, which wanted tactical air support for its operations in Kuwait.

2001 S. C. Tucker Who's Who in 20th Cent. Warfare 131 Harris believed that strategic bombing would break the German will to resist and force an end to the war.

c. Of or relating to materials essential to a country for fighting a war, esp. those which need to be imported. Also designating such materials.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > [adjective]

warlike1561

G.I.1936

strategic1940

1940 Times 20 May 10/3 Industrial consumers are stocking up with quicksilver, picric acid, manganese, chromium, antimony, tin and other strategic material.

1958 Economist 26 July 283 A relaxation of the embargo on strategic exports to communist countries has been in the wind for some time.

1981 Financial Rev. (Sydney) 24 Apr. 54/2 Germanium is one of about two dozen metals called ‘strategic’ because they are vital to defence and industry, but available in large supplies only from foreign sources.

2006 Economist 16 Sept. 124/2 (advt.) Advising..the implementation of UK strategic export controls.

d. Of or relating to nuclear weapons intended to destroy an enemy's military capability; (also) designating such weapons.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [adjective] > nuclear > qualities of

clean1956

low-yield1957

strategic1957

tactical1957

small-yield1959

theatre1977

INF1981

1957 Times 18 Nov. p. x/2 Between 1946..and 1950, strategic stockpiling had hardly begun.

1969 Times 27 Oct. 9/1 The discussions which will open between the United States and Russia in Helsinki next month are…the strategic arms limitation talks.

1979 Financial Rev. 28 Sept. 10/5 It is not that the doctrine of strategic deterrence is being discarded, but that it is being constantly adapted to new technologies.

2013 Daily Tel. 16 Sept. 31/1 He served on a strategic nuclear V-bomber base.

2. Of, relating to, or characterized by the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving them; designed, planned, or conceived to serve a particular purpose or achieve a particular objective.

ΚΠ

1878 Amer. Cricketer 11 July 11/3 Bance had to face Dan Newhall's strategic bowling as well as Charley's ‘pacers’.

1917 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 918/1 Tree-branches on which skulls of animals are placed, are set at strategic points to keep evil spirits away from date palms.

1952 Incorporated Statistician 3 20 He must..be fully informed of management's policy and strategic thinking.

1997 Community Care 17 July 62/2 (advt.) They will have lead responsibility for strategic planning and inter-agency working in their respective fields.

2013 City A.M. 28 Aug. 15/1 Corporate clients that had postponed strategic initiatives..are now dusting off IPO plans for the autumn.

3. Golf. Relating to or involving a type of course where hazards are placed in such a way that a player has a chance to recover from a poor shot if the next shot is played with sufficient skill. Also: designating a course of this type. Cf. penal adj.¹ 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > forms of golf > [adjective] > type of course

pitch-and-putt1925

strategic1926

1926 Times 30 Apr. 7/3 The strategic [school] consider that the indifferent player should be allowed enough rope to hang himself and that generally the punishment for a bad shot should..be postponed.

1931 T. Simpson Game of Golf 166 The strategic architect..hides his hand as much as he can.

1969 J. Nicklaus Greatest Game of All 190 One of the most testing and interesting inland courses in the world, strategic golf at its finest.

2000 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 19 Sept. (Metro Northwest section) 2 The course will be strategic, not penal.

†B. n.

The art, practice, or science of military strategy; = strategics n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > strategy

strategics1653

generalship1665

strategy1779

strategic1810

strategying1858

1810 Lit. Panorama Dec. 1488 Tactics, Logistics, Grand Tactics, Castrametation, Military Topography, Strategic, Dialectic, and Politics of War.

1831 Westm. Rev. July 226 The strategic of battles was indifferently well understood before his time.

1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. cxxii. 68 Frederic was the great improver in this which may be called the ‘Strategic of Battle’.

Compounds

strategic business unit n. a relatively autonomous division of a large company with responsibility for a particular range of products, services, etc.; abbreviated SBU.

ΚΠ

1971 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 9 May 10/7 The Department qualifies as a ‘strategic business unit’.

1993 Strategic Managem. Jrnl. 14 524/1 For the medical and diagnostic imaging equipment firms, MRI most likely constitutes a strategic business unit.

2011 R. Trapp What you need to know about Business vi. 170 These strategic business units are responsible for their own profit or loss and have a great deal of autonomy, but are answerable to the top management.

strategic hamlet n. now chiefly historical (in the Vietnam War (1955–75)) a fortified village in rural Vietnam intended to protect the local people from intimidation or attack by the Vietcong, insulate them from Vietcong propaganda, and thereby ensure the cooperation of the rural population in the war; also in extended use of similar counter-insurgency measures in other contexts.The strategic hamlet programme was developed in 1961 by the governments of South Vietnam and the United States, replacing the previous Vietnamese policy of creating agrovilles (agroville n.). The programme was considered a failure and had effectively ended by 1964.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > other types of village

post village1673

mill village1834

lake-settlement1863

pile village1863

lake-village1865

lake-hamlet1878

pile settlement1878

garden village1892

tree-village1901

model village1906

street village1928

strategic hamlet1963

1963 Times 21 Jan. 9/7 A vast campaign to build ‘strategic hamlets’ has been launched in every province... President Ngo Dinh Diem has described 1962 as the ‘year of the strategic hamlets’.

1975 New Yorker 5 May 131/1 What were we doing to the South Vietnamese, with our ‘strategic hamlets’?

1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) iii. 86 In the vast expanses of northern Manchuria villages were being burned and the surviving population herded into ‘strategic hamlets’.

2013 R. Jeffreys-Jones In Spies we Trust vii In July, the CIA reported the establishment of 2,000 strategic hamlets not just there but in other areas of South Vietnam, and announced plans for 7,000 more.

strategic point n. [after French point stratégique (1810 or earlier)] a position or area identified as important to a military strategy or campaign.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > other

a great speak1587

livera1616

event1794

strategic point1861

action1927

1861 J. Davis Let. 18 Nov. in Papers (1992) VII. 414 Our armies were marched into that State to repel the enemy and prevent their occupation of certain strategic points.

1941 Times 7 Aug. 3/4 The steady pommelling that the R.A.F. are giving strategic points throughout Cyrenaica.

1990 Y. Wang Foreign Policy Republic China on Taiwan vii. 101 The Middle East has been the most critical international strategic point since World War II.

strategic studies n. an academic discipline or field of knowledge focused on the role of military and diplomatic methods in achieving political aims.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > strategy > study of

strategic studies1958

1958 Financial Times 28 Nov. 7/7 (headline) Strategic studies. New institute formed.

1981 Listener 5 Nov. 530/1 I..started a postgraduate seminar in strategic studies.

2013 A. Finlan Contemp. Mil. Culture & Strategic Stud. i. 4 Another important aspect of strategic studies that distinguishes it from other fields concerns its inclination towards policy work.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	strategic
释义	strategicadj.n. Brit. /strəˈtiːdʒɪk/, U.S. /strəˈtidʒɪk/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek στρατηγικός. Etymology: < ancient Greek στρατηγικός of or for a general, (of a person) suited or fitted for command < στρατηγός strategos n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French stratégique (1777 or earlier as feminine noun, 1804 or earlier as adjective), German strategisch (1779 or earlier). Compare earlier strategics n., and also earlier strategy n.With use as noun compare ancient Greek ἡ στρατηγική (short for ἡ στρατηγικὴ τέχνη the strategic art). A. adj. 1. a. Of or relating to military strategy; useful or important in relation to military strategy. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [adjective] > strategy strategic1799 strategetic1804 strategetical1812 strategical1813 1799 Brit. Mil. Libr. Dec. 100 It has become a fundamental principle of our modern strategic system, to post the troops, if possible, on heights. 1825 J. A. Gilbert Expos. First Princ. Grand Mil. Combinations x. 67 Choosing a field of battle which has all the advantage of a good strategic position. 1894 Engineer 9 Mar. 199/1 The strategic railway connecting Tientsin with Shan-hai-Kwan. 1927 J. M. Keynes Ess. in Biogr. (1933) i. vi. 62 The strategic surrender, the deliberate withdrawal, the attempt to lure the enemy into a pocket where he could be taken in flank. 1974 H. Maclennan Rivers of Canada (rev. ed.) 24 The strategic necessity of securing the St. Lawrence as a high-road into the Ohio territory. 2012 N.Y. Times 4 Dec. a30/2 The Iranian nuclear issue, which Mr. Netanyahu considers the main strategic threat to Israel. b. Of aerial bombing: targeted on an enemy's homeland with the intention of damaging the national infrastructure and destroying morale; (of an aircraft) designed or used for this purpose. Frequently contrasted with tactical (tactical adj. 1b).Frequently with reference to the bombing of cities and consequent civilian casualties originating during the First World War (1914–18) and widespread during (and often emblematic of) the Second World War (1939–45). Cf. area bombing n. at area n. Compounds 2, carpet bombing n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [adjective] > type of bombing strategic1918 saturation1942 1918 Illustr. London News 15 June 14/1 Tactical bombing..may actually be at times of greater importance than strategic bombing of enemy countries. 1941 19th Cent. Sept. 163 Bombing of cities..is a true example of strategic bombing. 1961 Listener 14 Dec. 1012/1 If it becomes unwise..to consider basing MRBMs or strategic bombers in Europe, [etc.]. 1993 Independent (Nexis) 26 July 10 A long-running row between the air force, which wanted to carry out the strategic bombing of Iraq, and the army, which wanted tactical air support for its operations in Kuwait. 2001 S. C. Tucker Who's Who in 20th Cent. Warfare 131 Harris believed that strategic bombing would break the German will to resist and force an end to the war. c. Of or relating to materials essential to a country for fighting a war, esp. those which need to be imported. Also designating such materials. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > [adjective] warlike1561 G.I.1936 strategic1940 1940 Times 20 May 10/3 Industrial consumers are stocking up with quicksilver, picric acid, manganese, chromium, antimony, tin and other strategic material. 1958 Economist 26 July 283 A relaxation of the embargo on strategic exports to communist countries has been in the wind for some time. 1981 Financial Rev. (Sydney) 24 Apr. 54/2 Germanium is one of about two dozen metals called ‘strategic’ because they are vital to defence and industry, but available in large supplies only from foreign sources. 2006 Economist 16 Sept. 124/2 (advt.) Advising..the implementation of UK strategic export controls. d. Of or relating to nuclear weapons intended to destroy an enemy's military capability; (also) designating such weapons. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [adjective] > nuclear > qualities of clean1956 low-yield1957 strategic1957 tactical1957 small-yield1959 theatre1977 INF1981 1957 Times 18 Nov. p. x/2 Between 1946..and 1950, strategic stockpiling had hardly begun. 1969 Times 27 Oct. 9/1 The discussions which will open between the United States and Russia in Helsinki next month are…the strategic arms limitation talks. 1979 Financial Rev. 28 Sept. 10/5 It is not that the doctrine of strategic deterrence is being discarded, but that it is being constantly adapted to new technologies. 2013 Daily Tel. 16 Sept. 31/1 He served on a strategic nuclear V-bomber base. 2. Of, relating to, or characterized by the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving them; designed, planned, or conceived to serve a particular purpose or achieve a particular objective. ΚΠ 1878 Amer. Cricketer 11 July 11/3 Bance had to face Dan Newhall's strategic bowling as well as Charley's ‘pacers’. 1917 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 918/1 Tree-branches on which skulls of animals are placed, are set at strategic points to keep evil spirits away from date palms. 1952 Incorporated Statistician 3 20 He must..be fully informed of management's policy and strategic thinking. 1997 Community Care 17 July 62/2 (advt.) They will have lead responsibility for strategic planning and inter-agency working in their respective fields. 2013 City A.M. 28 Aug. 15/1 Corporate clients that had postponed strategic initiatives..are now dusting off IPO plans for the autumn. 3. Golf. Relating to or involving a type of course where hazards are placed in such a way that a player has a chance to recover from a poor shot if the next shot is played with sufficient skill. Also: designating a course of this type. Cf. penal adj.¹ 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > forms of golf > [adjective] > type of course pitch-and-putt1925 strategic1926 1926 Times 30 Apr. 7/3 The strategic [school] consider that the indifferent player should be allowed enough rope to hang himself and that generally the punishment for a bad shot should..be postponed. 1931 T. Simpson Game of Golf 166 The strategic architect..hides his hand as much as he can. 1969 J. Nicklaus Greatest Game of All 190 One of the most testing and interesting inland courses in the world, strategic golf at its finest. 2000 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 19 Sept. (Metro Northwest section) 2 The course will be strategic, not penal. †B. n. The art, practice, or science of military strategy; = strategics n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > strategy strategics1653 generalship1665 strategy1779 strategic1810 strategying1858 1810 Lit. Panorama Dec. 1488 Tactics, Logistics, Grand Tactics, Castrametation, Military Topography, Strategic, Dialectic, and Politics of War. 1831 Westm. Rev. July 226 The strategic of battles was indifferently well understood before his time. 1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. cxxii. 68 Frederic was the great improver in this which may be called the ‘Strategic of Battle’. Compounds strategic business unit n. a relatively autonomous division of a large company with responsibility for a particular range of products, services, etc.; abbreviated SBU. ΚΠ 1971 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 9 May 10/7 The Department qualifies as a ‘strategic business unit’. 1993 Strategic Managem. Jrnl. 14 524/1 For the medical and diagnostic imaging equipment firms, MRI most likely constitutes a strategic business unit. 2011 R. Trapp What you need to know about Business vi. 170 These strategic business units are responsible for their own profit or loss and have a great deal of autonomy, but are answerable to the top management. strategic hamlet n. now chiefly historical (in the Vietnam War (1955–75)) a fortified village in rural Vietnam intended to protect the local people from intimidation or attack by the Vietcong, insulate them from Vietcong propaganda, and thereby ensure the cooperation of the rural population in the war; also in extended use of similar counter-insurgency measures in other contexts.The strategic hamlet programme was developed in 1961 by the governments of South Vietnam and the United States, replacing the previous Vietnamese policy of creating agrovilles (agroville n.). The programme was considered a failure and had effectively ended by 1964. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > other types of village post village1673 mill village1834 lake-settlement1863 pile village1863 lake-village1865 lake-hamlet1878 pile settlement1878 garden village1892 tree-village1901 model village1906 street village1928 strategic hamlet1963 1963 Times 21 Jan. 9/7 A vast campaign to build ‘strategic hamlets’ has been launched in every province... President Ngo Dinh Diem has described 1962 as the ‘year of the strategic hamlets’. 1975 New Yorker 5 May 131/1 What were we doing to the South Vietnamese, with our ‘strategic hamlets’? 1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) iii. 86 In the vast expanses of northern Manchuria villages were being burned and the surviving population herded into ‘strategic hamlets’. 2013 R. Jeffreys-Jones In Spies we Trust vii In July, the CIA reported the establishment of 2,000 strategic hamlets not just there but in other areas of South Vietnam, and announced plans for 7,000 more. strategic point n. [after French point stratégique (1810 or earlier)] a position or area identified as important to a military strategy or campaign. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > other a great speak1587 livera1616 event1794 strategic point1861 action1927 1861 J. Davis Let. 18 Nov. in Papers (1992) VII. 414 Our armies were marched into that State to repel the enemy and prevent their occupation of certain strategic points. 1941 Times 7 Aug. 3/4 The steady pommelling that the R.A.F. are giving strategic points throughout Cyrenaica. 1990 Y. Wang Foreign Policy Republic China on Taiwan vii. 101 The Middle East has been the most critical international strategic point since World War II. strategic studies n. an academic discipline or field of knowledge focused on the role of military and diplomatic methods in achieving political aims. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > strategy > study of strategic studies1958 1958 Financial Times 28 Nov. 7/7 (headline) Strategic studies. New institute formed. 1981 Listener 5 Nov. 530/1 I..started a postgraduate seminar in strategic studies. 2013 A. Finlan Contemp. Mil. Culture & Strategic Stud. i. 4 Another important aspect of strategic studies that distinguishes it from other fields concerns its inclination towards policy work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1799
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