'Strategic' definitions:
Definition of 'strategic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Relating to or concerned with strategy; "strategic weapon"; "the islands are of strategic importance"; "strategic considerations" [syn: strategic, strategical]
adjective
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"
Definition of 'Strategic'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'strategic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- 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