tactic

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tac·tic

[tak-tik]
noun
1.
tactics (def. 1).
2.
a system or a detail of tactics.
3.
a plan, procedure, or expedient for promoting a desired end or result.
adjective
4.
of or pertaining to arrangement or order; tactical.

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1560–70; Neo-Latin tacticus < Greek taktikós fit for arranging or ordering, equivalent to tak- (base of tássein (Attic táttein) to arrange, put in order) + -tikos -tic

non·tac·tic, noun, adjective

stratagem, strategy, tactic (see synonym note at strategy).
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tactic (ˈtæktɪk)
 
n
See also tactics a piece of tactics; tactical move

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