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strategic adjective & noun. E19.
[French strategique from Greek strategikos, from strategos STRATEGUS: see -IC.]
A. adjective.
Of or pertaining to strategy; useful or important with regard to strategy. Also gen., concerned with or involving careful planning towards an advantage; loosely important. E19.
Of, pertaining to, or designating (nuclear) weapons, aircraft, or bombing intended to destroy the economic and industrial installations, communications facilities, etc., of an enemy country. Cf. TACTICAL 1b, c. M20.
(Of a material, an installation, a facility) essential to a country for fighting a war; of or pertaining to such materials etc. M20.
Special collocations: Strategic Defense Initiative a projected US defence system against intercontinental missiles, using orbiting satellites armed with lasers, missiles, etc. (abbreviation SDI; also called Star Wars).
b. noun. In pl. & (rare) sing. The strategic art, strategy. Cf. TACTICS 1. M19.