Tactic \Tac"tic\, n.
See Tactics.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tactic \Tac"tic\, Tactical \Tac"tic*al\, a. [Gr. taktiko`s. See
tactics.]
Of or pertaining to military or naval tactics; hence,
pertaining to, or characterized by, planning or maneuvering
for the short term; -- contrasted with strategic, planning
for the long term.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tactic
n : a plan for attaining a particular goal [syn: maneuver, manoeuvre]
WordNet (r) 2.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "tactic":
action, ad hoc measure, answer, art, artful dodge, artifice, blind,
campaign, caper, chicanery, conspiracy, contrivance, countermove,
coup, course of action, craft, cute trick, deceit, demarche,
design, device, dodge, effort, engineering, expedient, fakement,
feint, fetch, gambit, game, generalship, gimmick, grift,
improvisation, intrigue, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient,
knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, little game,
makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, military operations, move,
orchestration, pis aller, plan, plans, plot, ploy, racket,
red herring, resort, resource, ruse, scheme, shake-up, shift,
sleight, solution, step, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, stroke,
stroke of policy, subterfuge, tactics, tactual,
temporary expedient, trick, trickery, trump, wile, wily device,
working hypothesis, working proposition
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
maneuver, manoeuvre
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