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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tactical
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tactical error (=one that may cause a plan to fail)
▪ Both parties have made tactical errors in the run-up to the election.
tactical voting
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
advantage
▪ No tactical advantage then in Ulster, Eire, or in Westminster.
▪ In this competition, while a strategic advantage lies with what exists, all tactical advantage is with the acceptable.
▪ However, there were psychological and tactical advantages in forming a new organization.
▪ The tactical advantages to the defendant are considerable.
decision
▪ All agreed that the tactical decision on whether to go east or west at Cape Finisterre had been the key to success.
▪ Even as a tactical decision, it was a risk.
▪ There are also a large number of tactical decisions to be made as you sail upwind.
▪ They stand as the essential interface between strategy formulation and tactical decisions.
▪ Their tactical decision was equally clear: to borrow money from the International Monetary Fund.
▪ His government, he suggested, had empowered the military to make all tactical decisions necessary to resolve the conflict.
▪ That this was clearly a tactical decision quickly became apparent.
error
▪ First, he made the tactical error of blaming the civil war on the ethnic groups in the north of the country.
▪ Could this have been a major tactical error on my part?
▪ However, by two grave tactical errors, they frittered away this supremacy without ever realising its value.
mistake
▪ Because he was still ideologically sound, strategic and tactical mistakes could be forgiven.
▪ The tactical mistakes made in attempting to implement this program were manifold, but more important was the strategic error.
move
▪ Were the odd shorts some sort of tactical move, Les?
▪ Furthermore the Gore camp seems to have underestimated the down side of his surprise tactical move.
▪ The decision to cut 100 of the 256 political jobs at Commerce also appears to represent a tactical move by Daley.
▪ No brilliant tactical moves to draw attention from the players.
question
▪ Forbes's unexpected emergence points to intriguing tactical questions.
▪ A number of important tactical questions may need to be answered.
reason
▪ Chiefly for tactical reasons, a clause was inserted in the women's suffrage bills of 1874 expressly excluding married women.
▪ There are tactical reasons that a prosecutor might make that choice.
▪ He spent some time expressing his preference, for tactical reasons, for smaller neutron bombs before developing his argument.
▪ There were strong tactical reasons for this.
▪ However, when you tack it should be for tactical reasons.
▪ Vestey undertook with the Society - misguidedly - to play no part in the election campaign for tactical reasons.
▪ Mr Kinnock is correct to insist that fundamental changes in the voting system should not be undertaken for short-term, tactical reasons.
voting
▪ But the evidence for tactical voting is patchy.
weapon
▪ But these women also employed medical definitions of physical and mental weakness as an effective tactical weapon in the battle with men.
▪ Beneath this umbrella of deterrence are tactical weapons.
▪ The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned.
▪ Your mission is to boldly go about the galaxy destroying the Klingon forces which possess many new tactical weapons and abilities.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a tactical advantage
▪ a tactical army unit
▪ They have agreed to close the business as a tactical move to avoid public criticism.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even short-range nuclear missiles are tactical.
▪ Forbes's unexpected emergence points to intriguing tactical questions.
▪ No one thinks more attentively about the tactical political options.
▪ The next level, the tactical level, is involved in negotiating junctions and situations such as overtaking.
▪ This distressing situation served to bring out the fact that Nagumo had been assigned two tactical missions which were essentially incompatible.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tactical

Tactic \Tac"tic\, Tactical \Tac"tic*al\, a. [Gr. taktiko`s. See tactics.] Of or pertaining to military or naval tactics; hence, pertaining to, or characterized by, planning or maneuvering for the short term; -- contrasted with strategic, planning for the long term. -- Tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

Tactical

Tactical \Tac"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?. See Tactics.] Tactic \Tac"tic\, n. See Tactics.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tactical

1560s, "pertaining to tactics," from Modern Latin tactica (see tactics) + -al (1). Meaning "characterized by adroit management" is from 1883. In reference to nuclear weapons ("for limited use in military operations," opposed to strategic) it is recorded from 1957. Related: Tactically.

Wiktionary
tactical

a. of, or relating to tactics

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WordNet
tactical

adj. of or pertaining to tactic or tactics; "a tactical error"

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Wikipedia
Tactical (disambiguation)

Tactical (in the military context) refers to the lowest level of military strategy, usually consisting of individual combatant or small unit actions. These take place under the umbrella of larger scale more comprehensive and large-scale operational, theater and strategic levels.

In short, strategic-level thinking determines "why" the war is taking place, theater and operational-level thinking determines the "who, what and where" of the war, while tactics determine the "how".

Tactical

Tactical is the debut studio album by American melodic death metal band World Under Blood. Recorded at HIV + Cocksplitter and Keene Machine Studios in Los Angeles, California with Logan Mader and Michael Keene, it was produced by the band's frontman Deron Miller and guest musician James Murphy. The album was released on July 26, 2011 by Nuclear Blast Records.

The material for Tactical was written by Miller and arranged with drummer Tim Yeung, with the exception of the two cover versions: Megadeth's "Wake Up Dead" and Malevolent Creation's "Alliance or War". Murphy mixed and mastered the album. Tactical reached number 23 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, selling around 900 copies in its first week.

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Usage examples of "tactical".

Lleshi said, stepping past the Adjutor toward the tactical display, deliberately turning his back on the man.

It was strange, that the entire ship was divided between these two officers, Alameda running the aft half with the engineering spaces, Crossfield responsible for the operation of the tactical half, the forward spaces with the torpedoes and electronic control and sensor areas.

The Joint Chiefs are preparing to rearm with tactical nukes and azide explosives.

Apparently the god could neither hear nor see them, nor detect urine or draught from the blue nipples -- or for tactical reasons was behaving as if he could not.

Zamjan towards the Quallheim Counties, carrying its boisterous passenger complement of four Confederation Navy Marines, and three Kulu ESA tactical operation agents.

Nor is it truly possible for a Bolo to continue to question a tactical decision when the evidence is overwhelming that the decision actually taken was the correct one.

The Luftwaffe carried out its part in the German invasion of Poland with fierce efficiency and many Polish communities were bombed in the name of tactical bombing, the yardstick being that, if a town stood in the way of the Wehrmacht, it was bombed.

Ferrol said, keeping the bulk of his attention on the capacitor countdown timer and the scene on the main tactical display.

At those times the tactical communications net came alive with reports and orders, and both Erk and Odie became fully alert, but once the shooting died down they took turns trying to catch some sleep.

Parliament organized Golgotha into one great communications and tactical center, alerted all planets and colonies in the path of danger, and rushed ships, men, and weapons to defend those not yet fallen or attacked.

As promised, Citizen Captain Hall and Citizen Commander Hamer had kept Diamato thoroughly busy with tactical problems in his putatively free time.

Chenforce also employed the new looser tactical formations that Martinez had developed, and with apparent success.

He spent several weeks undergoing intense tactical training at Camp Smith in upstate New York, then came back to Midtown South and worked as a plainclothes narc running buy-and-bust operations.

Tactical employment is the same as that of field howitzers, but the Nebelwerfer is far inferior in accuracy.

Lod and give him the new flight plan and departure time, not to mention the fact that you both think Rish had the primary tactical frequency.