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Tactics

noun

The branch of military science dealing with detailed maneuvers to achieve objectives set by strategy.

A plan for attaining a particular goal. Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, tactic.

Tactic

noun

A plan for attaining a particular goal. Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, tactics.

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... calm immediately, but he left further tactics to Morris' discretion; and when Mr. Marks called at the latter's house that evening Morris showed that he possessed that discretion to a degree hardly equaled by ...

— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass

... features and anxious eyes and a possible application of the same principle to his own life, as in the case of Judas. But he wasn't considering himself now. There might come a time when he would have to change his tactics with regard to Aunt Saxon somewhat. She certainly had been a good sport last night. But this wasn't the time to consider that. He had a great deal more important matters to think of now. He had to find out how he could make ...

— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill

... keenest sensibility, exquisite refinement of feeling, perpetual play of restrained outbreaks of affection, which end in smoke. It is very artful too, and very effective. I should even, now that I reflect upon it, have preferred this system of tactics to my own pride, for waging war on members of the other sex, because it offers the advantage sometimes of thoroughly convincing them; but, at the present moment, without utterly condemning myself, I declare it to be superior to the non-complex coquetry of Montalais." And the two ...

— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... the lesson which Nelson completed, but which cost the latter his life. According to the reports which Duroc transmitted to me, courage gave momentary hope to the French; but they were at length forced to yield to the superior naval tactics of the enemy. The battle of Trafalgar paralysed our naval force, and banished all hope of any ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... his thoughts on political tactics. He talked impatiently, all the time absorbed in another subject; and at the first pause he ...

— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing

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