Synonyms for tactical


Grammar : Adj
Spell : tak-ti-kuh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæk tɪ kəl

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Définition of tactical

Origin :
  • 1560s, from Modern Latin tactica (see tactics); in reference to nuclear weapons (opposed to strategic) it is recorded from 1957. Related: Tactically.
  • adj strategic
Example sentences :
  • Qy.: Are any of these tactical improvements by Xenophon himself?
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
  • Before I went away the tactical situation was explained to me.
  • Extract from : « Pushed and the Return Push » by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
  • On tactical grounds alone the change of procedure was desirable.
  • Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
  • The Prussians suffered a strategic, though not a tactical defeat.
  • Extract from : « Lectures on the French Revolution » by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
  • It was a question the "tactical department" could not answer, but it thought volumes.
  • Extract from : « Starlight Ranch » by Charles King
  • Battalion a tactical unit; duties and responsibilities of major.
  • Extract from : « Manual of Military Training » by James A. Moss
  • He'll visit the bivouac area and observe the tactical exercises.
  • Extract from : « I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon » by Richard Sabia
  • Every point of tactical importance in the city was occupied by troops.
  • Extract from : « Sophy of Kravonia » by Anthony Hope
  • If the battle was a tactical draw, at least we had a strategic balance in our favour.
  • Extract from : « Ypres 1914 » by Otto Schwink
  • Yet, after all, Sir Arthur Wellesley had won merely a tactical victory.
  • Extract from : « Northern Spain » by Edgar T. A. Wigram

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