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noun

tactics (def. 1).

a system or a detail of tactics.

a plan, procedure, or expedient for promoting a desired end or result.

adjective

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 calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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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

Related forms

non·tac·tic, noun, adjective

Can be confused: stratagem, strategy, tactic (see synonym note at strategy).

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It's all obfuscating nonsense, of course, a scare tactic employed for political ends.

Faced with owning up to higher borrowing, he would have liked a diversionary tactic.

Now, a pair of biomechanics researchers has offered a scientific explanation of how this counterintuitive tactic worked.

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It's all obfuscating nonsense, of course, a scare tactic employed for political ends.

Faced with owning up to higher borrowing, he would have liked a diversionary tactic.

Now, a pair of biomechanics researchers has offered a scientific explanation of how this counterintuitive tactic worked.

Therefore, what evolution thought to be natural selection is actually tactic regression.

Let's stop using the mythical global warming scare tactic to manage everything.

My main tactic was deception, which involved introducing barley threshing as a new hip party game and some minor child labor.

Great tactic to try with kids who keep popping out of their rooms at bedtime.

Now, thousands of prisoners in four jails in the country are resorting to the same tactic.

The surprise tactic puts small fish to flight, which the seal then devours.

It has always been a major tactic of these types of people to argue against those who have limited ability to argue back.

Either way, it means a tactic intended to divert attention away from something.

The indie filmmakers are taking a different tactic than their commercial counterparts.

Rewarding workers for good performance is a standard private-sector tactic.

Although some skuas make their living solely by piracy, others employ this tactic only part of the time.

Well please forgive me for resorting to such a tactic.

Criminals are clever people, and if you defend against a particular tactic such as phishing, they'll find another.

The fund had argued that the tactic was discriminatory.

But the murderous tactic is rarely employed by low-ranking females in societies with a strongly dominant individual.

One quick-and-dirty damage control tactic is apologizing to those we've wronged.

It's clearly a scare tactic to goose companies into securing employee's data.

Not everybody has responded to this tactic as the government hoped.

However a common tactic is to have a levy on lubricant sales which finances a collection agency.

The researchers instead propose a tactic known as acquaintance immunization.

Now, it's almost a common fundraising tactic for conservation groups and universities.

But as an election-winning tactic it remains brutally effective.

We actually shot in front of that bear as a scare tactic but he didn't even care.

Exaggerating something so you can knock it is also a tactic that builds walls.

The government may simply be threatening to ban all investment as a tactic to keep the final percentage acceptably low.

So it was an acceptable tactic for anti-whalers but now that the pro-whales are using it, it is somehow wrong.

Their primary tactic to to attack anyone who disagrees.

Over the course of a year this simple energy saving tactic can have a sizable impact.

Later, others would only shrug when speculating as to why he had chosen this ill-advised tactic.

One successful tactic is to give these poachers alternatives for a better way of life.

Maybe singing is a form of survival for us, a tactic in order to be able to exist on the steppe.

And there's no need to repeat this tactic for the flight home, because a delayed or lost bag shouldn't create as big of a problem.

Does anyone else have a tactic for this kind of agression.

The spinoff is also a favored tactic of shareholder hedge fund activists.

That's a sophomoric tactic might work with your students, but it won't work with.

The union denounced the lay-off threat, calling it a scare tactic.

Neither tactic has yielded the all-important vascular network needed to sustain thicker tissues.

The same tactic also helps preserve potted plants grown outdoors and brought indoors occasionally for cats to enjoy.

The quest to recover lost books has left some librarians ambivalent about the tactic.

Now, my new tactic is to save them in a special folder to share with colleagues later.

The squid appear to use the tactic to illuminate and stun their victims, writes the team that made the discovery.

Elmore's lawyers acknowledged that the tactic was unusual and unlikely to succeed.

And nonviolently pointing out this inconvenient fact of corporate life is a wholly legitimate tactic for a social movement.

The other tactic is to punish athletes for misbehaving.

Creationists and intelligent-design boosters have a guerrilla tactic to undermine textbooks that don't jibe with their beliefs.

Transfer pricing, a tactic multinationals use to keep profits offshore, has been a concern to the government in recent years.

Clearly, if she did hang a noose on her own office door as a tactic to preempt the public exposure of her plagiarism.

Covertly recorded conversations and videos have become a tactic to discredit rivals.

Kelly has also credited the tactic with helping to cut crime to low levels in the city and with getting guns off the street.

The former tactic commonly appears when the job in question requires a wide range of talents.

But this tactic is unlikely to work in the east, where the lucrative diamond fields lie.

Making oneself as visible as possible isn't a great tactic from a military perspective.

But it is exactly this trait that makes the tactic medically useful.

And that's certainly a tactic you want to head off, since innocent infringers are liable for lower damages.

Officials are proposing alcohol detection devices in every vehicle as a tactic against drunken drivers.

Saying something is non-negotiable is, in itself, a common negotiating tactic.

Another ambiguous tactic is to offer rebates to customers that reach certain sales targets.

Last year scientists used a similar tactic to fake an entire out-of-body experience:.

They have compared the tactic to disrupting mail delivery to an entire apartment complex over one tenant's illegal actions.

Now, another tactic is gaining favor: special clothing that.

Conflating unrelated issues for the purposes political incitement is an age-old tactic in today's academy.

One tactic is to ramp up prices, but this is tricky in today's non-inflationary.

To the denialists it is solely a political, ideological struggle, and ridiculing the science is merely a tactic in that struggle.

But it's doubtful that this tactic will be much more successful than the last half-dozen.

The trend is an extension of a venerable marketing tactic known as co-branding that is widespread in selling packaged foods.

But my primary tactic is to divert my attention elsewhere.

Such abnegation has become a popular tactic in these anti-political times.

Its image mirrored in icy water, a polar bear travels submerged–a tactic often used to surprise prey.

There's only so much a technological tactic can do after such a big strategic blunder.

The bottling acquisition should boost this tactic by ending the need to negotiate a division of the spoils on every big deal.

Such a tactic might have the desired effect of preventing the rebels from communicating with one another.

On the other hand what else would you expect from a man whose prime tactic of improving the society is lashing in public.

It's the old tactic of selling outrage rather than facts.

The only tactic that would get you through the castle was staying out of sight and evading enemies.

His supporters are only half joking when they say his best campaign tactic would be silence, starting now.

But the politics of fear is a tactic typically used by the right.

And it burns relatively slowly, so jumping out of the way on the bomb's initial impact isn't much of a survival tactic.

Sniping to take out a vehicle's motor is a standard tactic across the military and law enforcement.

The only way to change your dogs behavior is to use a tactic that calls for extreme caution.

He's lived his life, so a wait-and-see tactic is probably pretty appealing to him, he won't live to see.

Still, the clever buying tactic means more new ships, faster.

As to your diversional tactic of discussing surfactants as sole agents of damage, please have some dignity.

He has stories and examples at the ready, even a shock tactic or two at his fingertips.

To use this tactic is merely to deprecate the motives of one's opponents rather than to argue the evidence.

It is hard to see your tactic as anything but an attempt to delegitimize my argument before even addressing.

It's a tactic worth pointing and laughing at, but little more.

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World English Dictionary

tactic (ˈtæktɪk)

—n
	See also tactics a piece of tactics; tactical move

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