Tactics
['tæktɪks]
Definition
(noun.) the branch of military science dealing with detailed maneuvers to achieve objectives set by strategy.
Editor: Mary--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Hence, any system or method of procedure.
Typist: Penelope
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Strategy, military science.[2]. Management, manœuvring, policy.
Typist: Naomi
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Manoeuvre, policy, strategy, diplomacy, management, temporization
ANT:Blunder, impolicy
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Definition
n.sing. the science or art of manœuvring military and naval forces in the presence of the enemy: way or method of proceeding.—adjs. Tac′tic -al pertaining to tactics.—adv. Tac′tically.—n. Tacti′cian one skilled in tactics.
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Examples
- Here Johnston made a stand until the 17th, when Sherman's old tactics prevailed again and the final movement toward Atlanta began. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- While I was at West Point the tactics used in the army had been Scott's and the musket the flint lock. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I came near it in French, artillery, infantry and cavalry tactics, and conduct. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The tactics of the battlefield are of no use when the battle is won. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He took no pains to conceal his calculations and tactics. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Among the technical w ritings of Varro besides the book on agriculture, which is extant, are numbered works on law, mensuration, and naval tactics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Under the old tactics almost every change in the order of march was preceded by a halt, then came the change, and then the forward march. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Phil bears down upon them according to his usual tactics. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I do not believe that the officers of the regiment ever discovered that I had never studied the tactics that I used. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The direct actionists are a warning to the Socialist Party that its tactics and its program are not adequate to domesticating the deepest unrest of labor. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For ten years Fabian tactics prevailed in Italy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Miss Ophelia was old, and skilled in the tactics of nursing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I got a copy of tactics and studied one lesson, intending to confine the exercise of the first day to the commands I had thus learned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To Sherman I told the story of the assault at Fort Donelson, and said that the same tactics would win at Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I see you don't yet like my tactics. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Editor: Zeke