LOGISTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logistics mean? 

• LOGISTICS (noun)
  The noun LOGISTICS has 1 sense:

1. handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed

  Familiarity information: LOGISTICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGISTICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("logistics" is a kind of...):

provision; supply; supplying (the activity of supplying or providing something)

Derivation:

logistic; logistical (of or relating to logistics)

 Context examples 

An office of the National Institutes of Health that acts as a central services organization for personal property, logistics and acquisition services.

(Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations, NCI Thesaurus)

A domain for logistics and disposition information specific to a given device.

(Device Tracking and Disposition Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This device was invented three years ago and could reportedly serve military assault or logistics purposes.

(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)

Study design is driven by the research hypothesis that is being posed, study subject/population/sample available, logistics/resources: technology, support, networking, collaborative support, etc.

(Nonclinical Study Design, NCI Thesaurus)

The research is based on examination of the levels of dissolved black carbon (DBC) that persist in freshwater and saline lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a mountainous polar desert across McMurdo Sound from the NSF's logistics hub in Antarctica, McMurdo Station.

(Antarctic lakes are a repository for ancient soot, NSF)