<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.</li><li>important in or essential to strategy.</li><li>principal, key, crucial, critical, opportune (of an action, as a military operation or a move in a game) forming an integral part of a stratagem: a strategic move in a game of chess.</li><li>Military: intended to render the enemy incapable of making war, as by the destruction of materials, factories, etc.: a strategic bombing mission.</li><li>(of a weapon) long-range, as an intercontinental ballistic missile: Compare tactical.</li><li>Strategic nuclear weapons were the linchpin of the Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine at the height of the Cold War.</li><li>essential to the conduct of a war: Copper is a strategic material.</li></ul>