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tac·tics  audio  (tktks) KEY  

NOUN:
    1. (used with a sing. verb) The military science that deals with securing objectives set by strategy, especially the technique of deploying and directing troops, ships, and aircraft in effective maneuvers against an enemy: Tactics is a required course at all military academies.
    2. (used with a pl. verb) Maneuvers used against an enemy: Guerrilla tactics were employed during most of the war.
  1. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A procedure or set of maneuvers engaged in to achieve an end, an aim, or a goal.

ETYMOLOGY:
New Latin tactica, from Greek taktika, matters pertaining to arrangement, or from Greek taktik (tekhn), (art) of deploying forces in war, both from taktikos, of order, from taktos, arranged, from tassein , tag-, to arrange


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