tactic
noun
[ ˈtaktɪk ]
• an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end.
• "the minority attempted to control the Council by a delaying tactic"
Similar:
strategy,
scheme,
stratagem,
plan,
set of tactics,
manoeuvre,
course/line of action,
method,
programme,
expedient,
gambit,
move,
approach,
tack,
path,
road,
device,
trick,
ploy,
dodge,
ruse,
game,
machination,
contrivance,
stunt,
means,
wiles,
artifice,
subterfuge,
wangle,
caper,
shift,
Origin:
mid 18th century: from modern Latin tactica, from Greek taktikē (tekhnē) ‘(art) of tactics’, feminine of taktikos, from taktos ‘ordered, arranged’, from the base of tassein ‘arrange’.
