strategicadjective
uk/strəˈtiː.dʒɪk/us/strəˈtiː.dʒɪk/C1 helping to achieve a plan, for example in business or politics:
strategic planning
a strategic withdrawal/advance
Their bombs are always placed in strategic positions to cause as much chaos as possible.
used to provide military forces with an advantage:
There are plans to modernize the US strategic forces.
strategic arms reduction talks
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- These problems demonstrate the importance of strategic planning.
- The region was, of course, of strategic importance.
- They want to protect their strategic and financial interests.
- This requires a little strategic thinking.
- The area had no strategic value to either country.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Planning, expecting and arranging
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim
- aim at sth
- calculate
- chart
- engineer
- I might have known idiom
- in the pipeline idiom
- intend
- intent
- intention
- promise
- reckon on sth
- scheme
- scientific
- see sth coming idiom
- set sth up
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Arms & munitions in general
strategically
adverb uk/strəˈtiː.dʒɪ.kəl.i/us/strəˈtiː.dʒɪ.kəl.i/
Examples
- Her desk was strategically placed so that she could keep her eye on the naughty children.
- A strategically positioned scarf hides her tattoo.
Her scarf was strategically placed to hide a tear in her shirt.
Central Asia is a fragile region, politically weak but strategically important.