What does logistics mean?
Word: Logistics
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Logistics means the careful planning and organising needed to move people, goods or equipment to the right place at the right time.
Synonyms: planning, arrangements
How do you spell logistics?
Syllables: lo - gis - tics
Tricky part: The g is soft and sounds like a j, so many students write lojistics. Hear a j but write a g.
Watch out for: lojistics, logestics
Memory tip: Good logistics needs logic, and the two words open the same way, with a soft g that is never a j.
Logistics in a sentence
Example 1: A logistics company in Nagpur sends trucks of oranges to markets all over India.
Example 2: Dad works in logistics, tracking parcels from the port in Chennai to shops across the south.
Example 3: Planning the logistics of a wedding for 500 guests kept my aunt busy for months.
Fun Fact
Logistics came into English from the French word logistique, which is linked to loger, meaning to give someone a place to stay.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tsigosilc
a) logicians
b) logistics
c) linguistics
d) statistics
Show answer
b) logistics. Only logistics uses these nine letters: statistics has an a and three t's, and the other two each need an n.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) robotiks
b) chemistry
c) engineering
d) logistics
Show answer
a) robotiks. Robotics is built on robot and ends in -ics, with a c, not a k.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
logisstics
a) c
b) t
c) s
d) i
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c) s. There is an s before the t and another at the very end, but never two side by side.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The logistecs of the inter-school quiz, from buses to lunch packets, were handled by the senior students.
a) logistecs
b) inter-school
c) packets
d) senior
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a) logistecs. Subjects and skills like physics and logistics end in -ics, with an i before the c.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The teacher in charge of the logistics for a school trip would decide ____.
a) which poem the class learns
b) what colour the walls are painted
c) which bus leaves at what time
d) who wins the drawing contest
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c) which bus leaves at what time
2. Which business depends most on logistics?
a) a small poetry club
b) a home painting class
c) a parcel delivery service
d) a music teacher's studio
Show answer
c) a parcel delivery service
