tactic

Definitions


[ˈtaktɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end
(e.g: the minority attempted to control the Council by a delaying tactic)


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Origin:
mid 18th century: from modern Latin tactica, from Greek taktikē (tekhnē) ‘(art) of tactics’, feminine of taktikos, from taktos ‘ordered, arranged’, from the base of tassein ‘arrange’




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