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tactic

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nounplan

Word Origin & History

1766, from Modern Latin tactica, from Greek taktike (tekhne) "(art of) arrangement," from fem. of taktikos (see tactics). Earlier it meant "a tactician" (1630s), and was in use as an adjective meaning "tactical" (c.1600).

Example Sentences for tactic

The enemy then followed a tactic which was to succeed rapidly.

Nothing the enemy has done so far points to that kind of tactic.

The man who overrides you will as often be pursuing a tactic as he cajoles you.

But Gene and Symonds were on the bottom, too crushed by this tactic to make a sound.

Their first tactic would probably be to push us off, one by one.

But he would ...

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Synonyms for tactic

noun plan

ploy
gambit
stratagem

More words related to tactic

artifice

noun. hoax; clever act

con
contrivance
device
dodge
expedient
gambit
gimmick
machination
maneuver
play
ploy
racket
ruse
savvy
scam
stratagem
subterfuge
tactic
wile

expediences

noun. resource

Band-Aid
contrivance
design
device
dodge
easy way out
gimmick
makeshift
maneuver
means
measure
method
recourse
resort
scheme
shift
step
stopgap
stratagem
strategy
substitute
surrogate
tactic
trick

expediencies

noun. resource

Band-Aid
contrivance
design
device
dodge
easy way out
gimmick
makeshift
maneuver
means
measure
method
recourse
resort
scheme
shift
step
stopgap
stratagem
strategy
substitute
surrogate
tactic
trick

expediency/expedience

noun. resource

Band-Aid
contrivance
design
device
dodge
easy way out
gimmick
makeshift
maneuver
means
measure
method
recourse
resort
scheme
shift
step
stopgap
stratagem
strategy
substitute
surrogate
tactic
trick

game

noun. plot, trick

butt
derision
design
device
hoax
joke
object of ridicule
plan
ploy
practical joke
prank
scheme
stratagem
strategy
tactic

games

noun. plot, trick

butt
derision
design
device
hoax
joke
object of ridicule
plan
ploy
practical joke
prank
scheme
stratagem
strategy
tactic

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expediences

expediencies

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games

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