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adjective
2.
characterized by skillful tactics or adroit maneuvering or procedure: tactical movements.
3.
of or pertaining to a maneuver or plan of action designed as an expedient toward gaining a desired end or temporary advantage.
4.
expedient; calculated.
5.
prudent; politic.
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Tactical
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Example Sentences
- They can goad us into tactical errors and strategic blunders.
- As well as these tactical benefits, suicide terrorism offers a strategic one.
- It was the trendiness and sectarianism of literary studies that made him seem ever tactical and adversarial.
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Word Origin & History
tactical
1560s, from Mod.L. tactica (see tactics); in reference to nuclear weapons (opposed to strategic) it is recorded from 1957. Related: Tactically.
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