Tactical

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "tactical":
     Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adept, adroit, advisable, arch,
     arranged, artful, astute, blueprinted, cagey, calculated, canny,
     charted, clever, contrived, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep,
     deep-laid, delicate, designed, designing, devised, diplomatic,
     feline, figured, foxy, guileful, in the works, ingenious,
     insidious, inventive, knowing, methodized, on the agenda,
     on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket,
     on the tapis, organized, pawky, planned, plotted, politic,
     projected, prudent, rationalized, ready, resourceful, scheduled,
     schematized, scheming, serpentine, set, shaped, sharp, shifty,
     shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smart, smooth, snaky, sneaky,
     sophistical, stealthy, strategetic, strategic, subtile, subtle,
     supple, sur le tapis, systematized, tactful, trickish, tricksy,
     tricky, vulpine, wary, wily, wise, worked out