strongpoints
Fortified military locations
Strongpoints are fortified military positions designed to resist attack, typically featuring defensive structures and weapons emplacements.
The term extends to figurative use for areas of particular strength or advantage: Customer service has always been their strongpoint.
More commonly written as two words (strong points) or as a single unhyphenated word (strongpoint) in the singular.
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
- bastionFortified defensive position
- redoubtEnclosed temporary fortification
- outpostRemote military station
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
emplacement · garrison · entrenchment · earthwork · pillbox · foxhole · trench · rampart
Item of value owned
- forteArea of expertise
- talentInborn aptitude
- skillAcquired ability through practice
- abilityPower to do something
competency · expertise · proficiency · capability · gift · knack · specialty · merit
fortification
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
- bastionFortified defensive position
- redoubtEnclosed temporary fortification
- outpostRemote military station
bunker · emplacement · garrison · entrenchment · earthwork · pillbox · foxhole · trench · rampart · bulwark
asset
Item of value owned
ability · competency · expertise · proficiency · capability · gift · knack · specialty · merit · virtue
- defenseswall, walls, fence, gate, barrier
- fortificationsfort, fortress, fortresses, citadel, citadels
- battlefieldsGettysburg, Waterloo, front lines, Antietam, frontline
- coastal defensesseawall, seawalls, sea wall, sea walls, breakwater
strongpointsweaknesses
Points of vulnerability
weak points · weak spots · shortcomings · deficiencies · flaws