Dictionary

strategetic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /stɹatəˈdʒɛtɪk/ (UK)

Etymology

Functionally strategy + -etic, rendering στρατηγητικός (stratēgētikós), a rare variant of στρατηγικός (stratēgikós) (whence the more common English word strategic).

Meanings

1. (archaic) Strategic.
   • The importance of having these great strategetic points fortified has been demonstrated by scientific gentlemen conversant with these subjects. 1847, J. D. B. De Bow, Commercial Review of the South and West, page 261:
   • He […] entertained an idea that Cairo was the nucleus or pivot of all really strategetic movements in this terrible national struggle. 1862, Anthony Trollope, North America:
   • This line must have immense strategetic importance to Turkey, since it guards against possible Serbian aggression. 1872, Elodie Lawton Mijatović, The History of Modern Serbia, page 258:

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Deriveds

strategetically