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str-uh-TEEJ-ik/strəˈtiːdʒɪk/

Strategic means done as part of a long-term plan to achieve an aim: a strategic review, strategic importance. Tactical is shorter-term; strategy (already in the dictionary) is the noun; accidental sits opposite. Do not call a review strategic if it skips the fire door.

Meaning

Done as part of a long-term plan to achieve an aim.

Examples

• “A strategic review that skips the fire door is not a strategy.”
• “Tactical is the short-term twin. Planned is everyday. Strategy is already in this course. A away-day with sticky notes is not automatically strategy. If statutory kit is off the agenda, the word is decoration.”

Good to know

Of a long-term plan. Noun: strategy (already in the dictionary). Contrast: tactical (short-term). Skipping a fire door is not strategy.

Near in meaning

strategy

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