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101strategic outsourcing — UK US noun [U] HR, MANAGEMENT ► the use by one company of another business to do particular tasks because it can do them more effectively or cheaply: »Companies can increase profits through strategic outsourcing …
102strategic partnering — UK US noun [U] MANAGEMENT ► a situation in which two companies or organizations have an arrangement to help each other or work together, to make it easier for each of them to achieve the things they want to achieve: »Strategic partnering can… …
103strategic partnership — UK US noun [C or U] MANAGEMENT ► an arrangement between two companies or organizations to help each other or work together, to make it easier for each of them to achieve the things they want to achieve: »A way of breaking into the market would be …
104strategic value — UK US noun [U] MANAGEMENT ► the degree to which a particular action or planned action is important or useful in relation to something that it wants to achieve: »The takeover offer failed to recognize the full strategic value of the company …
105strategic alliance — strategic partnership An agreement between two or more firms to engage in an activity on a shared basis. The outside activities of each partner are not affected by the alliance, which is designed to build on the expertise of each member and the… …
106Strategic Defence Initiative — noun A strategic defence system proposed by the USA involving laser equipped satellites deployed in space for destroying enemy missiles (abbrev SDI; also called Star Wars) • • • Main Entry: ↑strategy …
107strategic materials — strategic materials, strategic metals plural noun Materials or metals used for military purposes or necessary for carrying on a war • • • Main Entry: ↑strategy …
108strategic metals — strategic materials, strategic metals plural noun Materials or metals used for military purposes or necessary for carrying on a war • • • Main Entry: ↑strategy …
109Strategic Health Authority — [Strategic Health Authority] noun (abbr SHA) (in Britain) any of the local organizations within the ↑National Health Service responsible for health services in a particular area …
110Strategic essentialism — is a major concept in postcolonial theory. The term was coined by the Indian literary critic and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. It refers to a strategy that nationalities, ethnic groups or minority groups can use to present themselves.… …
