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tactics

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tactics has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

tacticsn. [Gr. taktika` pl., and taktikh` (sc. te`chnh, sing., fr. taktiko`s fit for ordering or arranging, fr. ta`ssein, ta`ttein, to put in order, to arrange: cf. F. tactique.].
  •  The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Hence, any system or method of procedure.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tactics, n.pl.
1 (also treated as sing.) the art of disposing armed forces esp. in contact with an enemy (cf. STRATEGY).
2 a the plans and means adopted in carrying out a scheme or achieving some end. b a skilful device or devices.

Derivative
tactician n.
Etymology
mod.L tactica f. Gk taktika neut.pl. f. taktos ordered f. tasso arrange

THESAURUS

tactics

action, actions, activity, acts, address, aerial tactics, affectation, air, airborne tactics, applied tactics, approach, armored tactics, arrangement, attack, barrier tactics, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, behind-the-scenes influence, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, carriage, cavalry tactics, charting, comportment, conception, conduct, contrivance, culture pattern, custom, defensive strategy, demeanor, deportment, design, device, devices, disposition, diversion, doing, doings, encirclement, enterprise, envisagement, expedients, feint, figuring, fire tactics, folkway, foresight, forethought, game, gestures, goings-on, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, guise, idea, infantry tactics, infiltration, influence, intention, investment, layout, lineup, long-range plan, machination, maintien, maneuvering, maneuvers, manipulation, manner, manners, mapping, master plan, method, methodology, methods, mien, mob tactics, mobile tactics, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, observable behavior, operations research, organization, pattern, pincers movement, plan, planning, planning function, poise, political influence, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, prearrangement, presence, procedure, proceeding, program, program of action, rationalization, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, setup, shock tactics, social science, strategic plan, strategy, style, system, systematization, tactical maneuvers, tactical plan, the big picture, the picture, tone, way, way of life, ways, wire-pulling, working plan

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tactics

Conduct

N conduct, behavior, deportment, comportment, carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance, dealing, transaction, business, tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity, generalship, statesmanship, seamanship, strategy, strategics, plan, management, husbandry, housekeeping, housewifery, stewardship, menage, regime, economy, economics, political economy, government, execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record, course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding, role, process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating, method, path, conducting, strategical, businesslike, practical, executive.

Warfare

N warfare, fighting, hostilities, war, arms, the sword, Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella, bloodshed, appeal to arms, appeal to the sword, ordeal of battle, wager of battle, ultima ratio regum, arbitrament of the sword, battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations, mobilization, state of siege, battlefield, theater of operations, warpath, art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation, generalship, soldiership, logistics, military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery, chivalry, gunpowder, shot, battle, tug of war, service, campaigning, active service, tented field, kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel, fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan, war-cry, war-whoop, battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom, calumet of war, word of command, password, watchword, passage d-armes, war to the death, war to the knife, guerre a mort, guerre a outrance, open war, internecine war, civil war, contending, contentious, armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie, sword in hand, in arms, under arms, up in arms, at war with, bristling with arms, in battle array, in open arms, in the field, embattled, battled, unpacific, unpeaceful, belligerent, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike, military, militant, soldier-like, soldierly, chivalrous, strategical, internecine, flagrante bello, in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth, at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet, Int, vae victis!, to arms!, to your tents O Israel!, the battle rages, a la guerre comme a la guerre, bis peccare in bello non licet, jus gladii, my voice is still for war, 'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it, my sentence is for open war, pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war, the cannons have their bowels full of wrath, the cannons aspit forth their iron indignation, the fire-eyed maid of smoky war, silent leges inter arma, si vis pacem para bellum.

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