strategetic

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Etymology

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Functionally strategy +‎ -etic, rendering στρατηγητικός (stratēgētikós),[1] a rare variant of στρατηγικός (stratēgikós) (whence the more common English word strategic).

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strategetic (comparative more strategetic, superlative most strategetic)

  1. (now rare) Strategic. [from 19th c.]
    • 1847, J. D. B. De Bow, Commercial Review of the South and West, page 261:
      The importance of having these great strategetic points fortified has been demonstrated by scientific gentlemen conversant with these subjects.
    • 1862, Anthony Trollope, North America:
      He […] entertained an idea that Cairo was the nucleus or pivot of all really strategetic movements in this terrible national struggle.
    • 1872, Elodie Lawton Mijatović, The History of Modern Serbia, page 258:
      This line must have immense strategetic importance to Turkey, since it guards against possible Serbian aggression.

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