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logistical

/ləˈdʒɪstɪkəl/
/ləˈdʒɪstɪkəl/
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Things you have to carefully plan or organize are logistical. If you need logistical help planning a party, you could use assistance planning the guest list, menu, music, and other details.

A logistical problem occurs when your plans didn't account for something: "You forgot to get a permit for this parade, and now the marching band and floats are causing a traffic jam — what a logistical nightmare!" Logistical things can relate to strategy or management, though this adjective originally meant "pertaining to logic," from the Greek logistikos, "endowed with reason."

Definitions of logistical
  1. adjective
    of or relating to the management of an operation or event
    synonyms: logistic
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