| 单词 | tactics |
| 释义 | tactics (once / 435 pages) n Tactics are your carefully planned actions for attaining a certain goal. You'll have to come up with some clever tactics if you're going to figure out how to build the fastest race car and win the Girl Scout troop competition. Tactics also refers to a branch of military science that deals with planning maneuvers. Military tactics involve organizing troops in certain ways, in various locations, and deploying them according to plan. Your military strategy is your plan of action to achieve your overall goal — sinking the Spanish armada, for instance — while your tactics are the nuts and bolts of how you achieve it — deploying small, agile gunboats. Tactics comes from the Greek root taktos, meaning "ordered, arranged." WORD FAMILYtactics: tactical, tactician+/tactic: tactics/tactical: tactically/tactician: tacticians USAGE EXAMPLESIn the Baltic states, cyberhacking is only one of many tactics that Russia uses for malign influence. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Security officers used a variety of coercion tactics. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The next night brought another round of events, including a second one at the 7th Place warehouse, a recurring party called Joy Tactics. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1n a plan for attaining a particular goal Syn|Hyper maneuver, manoeuvre, tactic plan of action a plan for actively doing something 2n the branch of military science dealing with detailed maneuvers to achieve objectives set by strategy Hyper military science the discipline dealing with the principles of warfare |
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