Strategic means planned with the long-term aim in mind. A strategic decision, strategic planning, strategically placed.
It is often used to make an ordinary decision sound considered, which is why strategic appears in so many job titles. In its precise military sense it is the opposite of tactical: strategic weapons and strategic bombing act on the war rather than the battle.
1adjectivestrategicPlanned with the long-term aim in mind.
“Opening a shop near the station was a strategic move that brought in more customers.”
strategic is a quality of planning.
The Greek is a general leading an army, the same army behind a stratagem. Strategic thinking plans the whole campaign, not just the next battle.
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Greek strategikos means of a general, from strategos, a commander — stratos, an army, plus agein, to lead.
Proto-Indo-European
*sterh₃-
Ancient Greek
στρατηγικός — of or for a general", also "a treatise on strategy
English, today
strategic
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From Ancient Greek στρατηγικός (“of or for a general", also "a treatise on strategy”), from στρατηγός (“the leader or commander of an army, a general”), from στρατός (“army”) + ἄγω (“I lead, I conduct”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA