logistically

American  

[loh-jis-tik-lee, luh-] / loʊˈdʒɪs tɪk li, lə- /

adverb

1. in a way that relates to logistics, the branch of military operations dealing with the supply, maintenance, and distribution of equipment and personnel.

   In antiquity, warfare became associated with agriculture because armies depended logistically on huge granaries.

2. in a way that relates to the planning, coordination, and implementation of the details of any operation.

   With the help of my very understanding wife, I began planning both logistically and financially to return to Mount Everest to film some new material.

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Etymology

Origin of logistically

First recorded in 1900–05; logistic ¹ ( def. ) + -ally ( def. )

Example Sentences

"GreenDrill really demonstrated that, if you can logistically pull it off, there is the technology available to drill down to the bedrock and there's an analytical toolkit to then analyze it," Briner says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026

Megan Spillman said piecing together her rising fifth-grader’s schedule was a heavy lift, logistically and financially.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

Selling within seven years could be logistically difficult for an investor to pull off, since a build-to-rent community is often financed by one large loan.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

The Milan-Cortina Games are the first Olympics officially shared between two host cities and the most logistically complex Winter Games ever, taking place over 8,500 square miles of northern Italy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

You don't realize how expensive and cumbersome and logistically difficult it is to set up the simplest station on an abnormal planet.

From Step IV by Brown, Rosel George