Englishtactic
noun
1 tax-saving tactics:
strategy, scheme, stratagem, plan, set of tactics, maneuver, course/line of action;
method, program, expedient, gambit, move, approach, tack, path, road;
device, trick, ploy, dodge, ruse, game, machination, contrivance, stunt;
(tactics) means, wiles, artifice, subterfuge;
informal wangle, caper;
archaic shift.
2 (tactics) the larger French fleet was decimated by superior tactics:
battle plans, plans, game plans;
moves, maneuvers, logistics;
strategy, policy, campaign;
generalship, military science;
organization, planning, arrangement, administration, direction, masterminding, orchestration, handling, running.
| easily confused words | tactics or strategy? |
| See strategy. | |