tactic

tactic
    n 1: a plan for attaining a particular goal [syn: {tactic},
         {tactics}, {maneuver}, {manoeuvre}]
    

Tactic \Tac"tic\, n.
   See {Tactics}.
   [1913 Webster]
    

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.]
    

82 Moby Thesaurus words for "tactic":
      action, ad hoc measure, answer, art, artful dodge, artifice, blind,
      campaign, caper, chicanery, conspiracy, contrivance, countermove,
      coup, course of action, craft, cute trick, deceit, demarche,
      design, device, dodge, effort, engineering, expedient, fakement,
      feint, fetch, gambit, game, generalship, gimmick, grift,
      improvisation, intrigue, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient,
      knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, little game,
      makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, military operations, move,
      orchestration, pis aller, plan, plans, plot, ploy, racket,
      red herring, resort, resource, ruse, scheme, shake-up, shift,
      sleight, solution, step, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, stroke,
      stroke of policy, subterfuge, tactics, tactual,
      temporary expedient, trick, trickery, trump, wile, wily device,
      working hypothesis, working proposition