tactic
Definitions
General English
- noun a way of doing something so as to get an advantage
Commerce
- noun a way of doing things so as to be at an advantage
Information & Library Science
- noun a method of achieving what you want
Military
- noun a combination of firepower, formation and manoeuvre, which is used to achieve a military objective
Origin & History of “tactic”
Tactics denotes etymologically ‘arrangement, setting in order’. It goes back ultimately to Greek tássein ‘put in order’, hence ‘arrange in battle formation’. from this was derived taktós ‘arranged’, which formed the basis of the further adjective taktikós ‘concerned with arrangement or (military) planning’ (source of English tactic and tactical (16th c.)). It was used in the plural, taktiká, for ‘matters relating to arrangement’, and this served as a model for English tactics.
