Crossword clues for strategic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
strategic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a strategic aim (=that is part of a military, political, or business plan)
▪ The broader strategic aims were to safeguard the Dutch East Indies against attack.
a strategic alliance (=arranged as part of a military, political, or business plan)
▪ Strategic alliances are being forged with major European companies.
strategic planning (=relating to actions for achieving a plan, especially in a military, business, or political situation)
▪ He runs a business that offers companies advice on marketing and strategic planning.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ This leads to a more strategic game with long rallies.
▪ But my reasons are more strategic.
▪ The Producer would still be in overall charge, but his or her role was now far more strategic than tactical.
▪ But such concerted action could also mark the beginning of a more strategic formof cooperation.
■ NOUN
advantage
▪ They have a number of key strategic advantages.
▪ In this competition, while a strategic advantage lies with what exists, all tactical advantage is with the acceptable.
aim
▪ Planning may also deter purchasers from undertaking opportunistic acquisitions for short term motives without regard to long term strategic aims.
▪ Underlying everything, therefore, is a need for quick reaction, coupled with clarity and consistently about strategic aims.
▪ Resolving the strategic aims of the purchaser and its main provider where these conflict may require difficult negotiations.
▪ To what extent these strategic aims are compatible remains to be seen.
▪ However, it is the third and final stage of the argument that reveals fully its strategic aims.
alliance
▪ He went on to say that the solutions are diversification, restraint, restructuring and strategic alliances.
▪ Kodak is exploring either selling its copier unit or setting a joint venture or strategic alliance.
▪ A strategic alliance may take the form of an outright acquisition, minority stake, joint venture or brand franchise.
▪ The phone companies have invested in technologies and strategic alliances designed to enter the business.
▪ The agreement is said to mark the beginning of a close strategic alliance between the two companies.
▪ In addition to the strategic alliance, Dataguild is also to distribute Wellfleet's multi-protocol bridge-routers.
analysis
▪ The main point of the Porter analysis was to establish that that form of information was fundamental to any strategic analysis.
▪ A careful strategic analysis as described in chapter 4 will help to lessen the disadvantages of using leading indicators.
▪ It is now appropriate to review this problem again in the light of the strategic analysis discussed in chapter 4.
▪ It is the latter one really needs for strategic analysis.
▪ Also, there are clear benefits from bringing proposed actions together in a formal strategic analysis and long-term financial plan.
▪ The material in this update emphasises basic news of the developments taking place rather than overall strategic analysis.
▪ Otherwise it is likely that strategic analysis will rest on very shaky foundations.
▪ It is still, however, potentially a very important part of the strategic analysis required.
approach
▪ The Halifax's strategic approach is most clearly shown in two big steps it did not take.
▪ We will ensure that all parts of government adopt a strategic approach to the employment and development of women staff.
▪ A strategic approach to urban regeneration for Britain's cities Carley, Michael.
▪ Does our area have a planned strategic approach to 1992?
▪ Ideology has been one major determining factor in the strategic approach adopted by unions.
▪ This strategic approach aims to optimise information and technology as valuable resources to achieve the key business objectives of the corporation.
▪ This facility allegedly commanded the strategic approaches to the Red Sea.
▪ This paper outlines a strategic approach for developing primary and community health services in London.
business
▪ It intends to offer customers strategic business planning as well as interoperability strategies for the future.
▪ Focus on the strategic business issue.
▪ An outside auditor appointed by the Secretary of Transportation will analyse Amtrak's financial practices, especially its strategic business plan.
▪ Sound experience of developing and implementing short-and long-term strategic business plans.
▪ They considered the traditional areas of training and those incorporating strategic business change, corporate learning and total quality management.
change
▪ Company Human Resource Policies - a two-and-a-half-day programme for those directors concerned with human resources and with responsibility for leading strategic change.
▪ Objectives: To develop the skills required to lead and manage strategic change.
▪ This is why it is often stressed that strategic change must be supported by top managers.
▪ Central to our research are questions such as: how do design firms cope with strategic change?
▪ It is important to recognise that professionals providing a service exert considerable influence on the fate of strategic change initiatives.
choice
▪ Thus boundaries to strategic choices will be set interalia by political and economic forces.
▪ The gap leaves both sides in the presidential sweepstakes with a strategic choice.
▪ Some states will be faced with more strategic choices than others in the construction of contemporary capitalisms.
▪ It is appropriate therefore to see the state and its actors as facing strategic choices within constraints.
decision
▪ But corruption is only a partial explanation of some of the key strategic decisions taken by the governments.
▪ I think it was a strategic decision to bring us here, where we can pay attention to different trends.
▪ Similarly, it appears that managers for the most part do not make strategic decisions.
▪ Yet major strategic decisions could depend very much upon the will of the monarch.
▪ Of those questioned, 45% thought that experienced business managers could help them with future strategic decisions.
▪ First, he stresses that one should not view strategic decisions as emerging randomly.
▪ Recognizing it, they will feel entitled to consideration in strategic decisions.
▪ They agree with him that they must develop a vision and make some strategic decisions.
direction
▪ Tracks and, later, roads converged on the city from every strategic direction.
▪ They fear that the exchange is drifting without strategic direction.
▪ The Forum is taking a number of strategic directions to get its message across.
▪ There is a consensus in the City that the Ranks Hovis management lacks both panache and strategic direction.
▪ The most deleterious situations were those where general managers abdicated their responsibility for setting strategic direction to staff planners ....
▪ Some strategic direction is essential, as successive governments have recognised.
▪ Pilkingtons have initiated a long-term change in strategic direction towards higher value-added products.
forces
▪ In the last 50 years, our strategic forces made quantum jumps in effectiveness that surpassed anything the Soviet Union could do.
goal
▪ And he will be expected to use that information to improve performance and to help his company attain its strategic goals.
▪ Bundling phone and cable service to its Bay Area customers is a major strategic goal.
importance
▪ Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians.
▪ This bridge we're guarding is of great strategic importance.
▪ To this day the strategic importance of Stirling is obvious to anyone approaching from the south.
▪ After all, what strategic importance could an ordinary tutor hide in his ordinary office?
▪ Henley offers both organisations and individual managers the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research into issues of strategic importance.
▪ From a military point of view, the strategic importance of the Iberian Peninsula was evident simply from looking at a map.
▪ Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning.
▪ Will he therefore take this opportunity to emphasise the employment aspect as well as the strategic importance of the fourth submarine?
investment
▪ Development of specialised expertise, for example in swaps, is a further form of strategic investment.
▪ The consequence, at worst, is a neglect of research and development, strategic investment and skills training.
▪ Even more insidious, perhaps, is the rapid acceptance of capital-budgeting techniques, which involve discounting calculations for assessing strategic investments.
▪ His company's strategic investment in Britain was based on the country joining the euro by 2006.
issue
▪ Spending resources before financial deadlines has come to dominate the administration of Partnerships and Programme Authorities, instead of wider strategic issues.
▪ The two men and Mr Tellep, 64, will form an office of the chairman to deal with strategic issues.
▪ The initial discussion on strategic issues turned out to be much longer than the time allotted for it on the schedule.
▪ The announcement will cause concern in the Middle East, where water is one of the most sensitive strategic issues.
▪ As with development plans, counties were responsible for strategic issues while districts were responsible for local issues.
▪ First speaker of the day was Professor Ian Fells, discussing the environmental and strategic issues affecting nuclear power.
▪ The Secretary of State's interventions would be kept to a minimum and would usually focus on strategic issues.
management
▪ Two further points regarding the ways managers cope with ambiguity will be of relevance to our consideration of strategic management.
▪ Executive information systems, which are designed for strategic management, are usually of this type.
▪ In addition, we are investigating the strategic management of Design consultancies.
▪ The importance of review and evaluation as an integral part of the strategic management of partnerships can not be overemphasised.
missile
▪ Unlike the United States, Britain had no large sparsely-populated desert areas in which to deploy strategic missiles.
▪ Dole already has used legislative issues such as gun control and strategic missile defense to score political points.
▪ He had thus had achieved the greatest practicable measure of independence without squandering resources on strategic missile development.
▪ The proposal would have restricted nuclear weapons at sea to strategic missile submarines.
move
▪ This is a vital strategic move for Johnson Matthey.
▪ Mr Bulder's appointment is another key strategic move by Verio to strengthen its global presence.
▪ In addition, incumbent firms have actively carried out strategic moves.
▪ I understand prime time is supremely competitive and that certain strategic moves are necessary and commonplace.
▪ Supporters of the rational model may seek to move to the desired situation in one strategic move.
▪ The pricing strategy remained a brilliant strategic move that had not prevented Clean Keepers from dealing with other issues.
objective
▪ The future state can be defined as the vision for the organization or the strategic objectives of the change.
▪ For example, pressures to commercialism may lead management to replace blurred and ambiguous strategic objectives with clear and concise ones.
partner
▪ Its main strategic partner is Cisco Systems.
▪ Evidently the new strategic partners are permitted offensive missiles for mutual annihilation but not defenses against an accidental launch.
▪ Buhl has been named vice-president, strategic partners, reporting to Scott.
partnership
▪ Turndal predicted future growth would come from product development, strategic partnerships, alliances and acquisitions.
▪ We should explore the formation of a real strategic partnership.
plan
▪ When this happens, strategic plans not only waste enormous time and money, they can become actual barriers to innovation.
▪ These councils would assess local needs, contribute to local service plans within the overall strategic plan and monitor local service provision.
▪ Unfriendly takeovers represent a constant threat to underperforming companies with ill prepared strategic plans.
▪ But the commanders had their orders and a strategic plan to carry out, and they stood firm.
▪ About three weeks ago, Teran released a four-year strategic plan to improve public safety throughout Baja California.
▪ We need a vision and a strategic plan.
▪ Under the law, agencies will be required to write strategic plans, set goals and measure their performance.
planning
▪ Some, such as strategic planning or transportation, require far wider areas than others, such as housing or the Personal social services.
▪ Strategic Planning in Practice - a five-day programme for senior executives and directors involved in strategic planning.
▪ It has a strategic planning function.
▪ Intelligence, even codebreaking, is at best only a fragmented adjunct to strategic planning.
▪ A stable financial platform is essential for the strategic planning of information services. 3.
▪ The strategy of the release All too often there is no strategic planning behind the use of media releases.
▪ The education community urgently needs a new framework for local strategic planning and accountability.
points
▪ A score of fleshy-hued silk scarves fluttered from strategic points, acting as veils.
▪ In fugato, for example, parts imitate each other only at certain strategic points.
▪ There were flowers everywhere in tubs and window-boxes, and music played softly over speakers placed at strategic points.
▪ Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us, quite literally, to have the ancient world at our fingertips.
▪ About 20 groups toured the plant, stopping at strategic points for an explanation of the process.
▪ He had already seen to it that fodder had been stored in stone-built barns situated at strategic points on lower pastures.
▪ Most post-cranial bones can be reconstructed on a flat surface, with supporting pillars of plasticine at strategic points if necessary.
position
▪ Khotan also occupied a remarkably strategic position.
▪ As a result of the smooth progress of the first-phase operations, we have established an invincible strategic position.
▪ These strategic positions are not filled by just another group of salaried employees.
▪ This is a historic town, its nucleus occupying an imposing and consequently strategic position on an eminence commanding the river Emme.
▪ Turku Castle was built in the thirteenth century in a strategic position on the harbour.
▪ As lay-abbot of St-Martin Tours, Adalard occupied a key strategic position in the Loire valley.
▪ Towns had often to be sited in defensive, strategic positions not readily accessible to the railway.
▪ The command unit was in its strategic position in the town square.
reason
▪ Again there was a break with tradition for strategic reasons.
▪ And the oil Clinton is selling is from reserves called strategic for, well, strategic reasons.
▪ There are strategic reasons why the governments wish these projects to proceed.
▪ In this case the relationship is between non-competitors and is likely to have been established for strategic reasons.
▪ The joint chiefs were unwilling to support a treaty at this juncture for strategic reasons.
▪ Surely there is no convention that judges may adjust their views about legal rights for purely strategic reasons.
review
▪ Meanwhile, Wellcome was undergoing its own strategic review and had decided to get out of making vaccines.
▪ It even has a strategic review panel to act as a think-tank.
▪ This is where Mr Marshall and the strategic review come in.
▪ It has chosen to steer a middle course between them rather than undertake a strategic review.
role
▪ All schools will be free to manage their day-to-day budgets, with local education authorities given a new strategic role.
▪ Secondly, along with the development of the training and enterprise councils, Britain's sectors should be given a key strategic role.
situation
▪ The Soviet Union could affect the situation through skilful action with serious consequences for the whole strategic situation.
value
▪ Malaya had no strategic value but its economic value, as a producer of tin and rubber, was great.
▪ However, the arrangement has strategic value that could translate into profits later.
▪ Some of this information will be of strategic value.
▪ Hence the strategic value of peaceful Ca Mau, at least on paper, on maps.
▪ Successive monarchs saw to its upkeep for its strategic value, until Lyme later developed into a trading port.
▪ But it could have strategic value for a defense team facing the biggest case filed against an Aberdeen soldier to date.
▪ I would like to say that Pegasus Farm was of vital strategic value to the war effort, but I can not.
▪ A decline in activity may now come about if both accord the region less strategic value than they have given it hitherto.
vision
▪ His wisdom and strategic vision laid the solid foundations on which we will continue to build.
▪ Different strategic visions of the club and that sort of thing.
▪ More recently, the concepts of strategy and leadership have been combined into that of strategic vision.
weapon
▪ I told him also that Britain's only strategic weapon would be the minimum deterrent constituted by Trident.
▪ The United States considers strategic weapons negotiations the most pressing issue to be sorted out at the summit.
▪ The United States still had a substantial lead in strategic weapons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ strategic bombing
▪ strategic materials such as iron or steel
▪ a strategic alliance
▪ The British army made a strategic withdrawal across the English Channel.
▪ The remote province is in a strategic location on the border with China.
▪ The two countries agreed to join together in a strategic alliance.
▪ We need to have a strategic plan for education in the next century.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again there was a break with tradition for strategic reasons.
▪ Deploying strategic crescendos, they had people jumping spontaneously out of their seats.
▪ He had thus had achieved the greatest practicable measure of independence without squandering resources on strategic missile development.
▪ It would give impetus to strategic disarmament negotiations, he said.
▪ Recognizing it, they will feel entitled to consideration in strategic decisions.
▪ The smallest are unlikely to perform satisfactorily strategic functions like planning and economic regeneration.
▪ With such values, how are man-made brainpower firms to hold on to, and enhance, their only strategic asset?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strategic
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.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
strategic
"pertaining to strategy, characterized by strategy," 1807, from French stratégique and directly from Greek strategikos in classical use "of or for a general; fitted for command," from strategos (see strategy). Related: Strategical; strategically (1810).
Wiktionary
strategic
a. of or pertaining to strategy
WordNet
strategic
adj. relating to or concerned with strategy; "strategic weapon"; "the islands are of strategic importance"; "strategic considerations" [syn: strategical]
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"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "strategic".
It would yield much of the broader, strategic analytic duties and personnel to the NCTC.
The problem with all of this is that the whole strategy is dangerous and antithetical to our strategic circumstances with Iraq.
The planet Arcos is of strategic importance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.
As an integral part of the Strategic Bombing Survey, Reliance established the initial structural base for brainwashing, opinion-making, polling, survey and the systems analysis used by the Tavistock Institute in the United States.
Shaoki, then by their hirelings, the heavy lifter unit the Malleus Maulers, was chance, the typical Shaoki strategic stupidity, or the knowledge the Khelat were coming.
It is the tag of that first strategic maneuveremblem, metonym, the name people revive every time history rounds up its usual innocents.
In class Major Staley lectured on the firststrike survival capability of our nuclear arsenal, ranging from the landbased Minuteman and Titan missile silos to the nuclearpowered Polaris submarine missilelaunching fleet to the more than five hundred combatready bombers of the Strategic Air Command.
Archbishop bore in monstrant fashion with hands raised and crossed, and, moving to the strategic position he had previously selected, set down upon the table before him.
Now the kayak hung under a delta-shaped parasail, supported by a dozen nylon risers that rose from strategic positions along the upper hull.
His plan had us flying to Plei Djereng Special Forces camp, near the Cambodian border, then breaking up in groups of four to land grunts at strategic points.
But on quitting the Department I landed in the Office of Strategic Services.
I tell you about the need for a continual reappraisal and reassessment of strategic alliances?
I only told you I was exercising my prerogative as a C20 to maintain you as my captain because your abilities to block scans were a strategic defence against the Others.
Easier to place around the objective than normal explosives requiring bore holes or the attachment of high-resistance wires by embedding them in plastic substances or through soldering, solenite need only be secured to the magna surfaces of the cannon and then connected to the equally magnetic base-charge materials at strategic points.
The first would be to Admiral Solow to request a transfer to his strategic command.