tactical

CEFRB2

/ˈtæktɪk(ə)l/

adjective

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Of or relating to tactics.
Of or relating to military operations that are smaller or more local than strategic ones.
Having a military appearance, typically with accessories such as a bipod, adjustable stock, detachable magazine or black coloration.

In context

tactical nuclear weapon
As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline.
There are already hopes that actual tactical surprise has been attained, and we hope to furnish the enemy with a succession of surprises during the course of the fighting.

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As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline.
2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport
There are already hopes that actual tactical surprise has been attained, and we hope to furnish the enemy with a succession of surprises during the course of the fighting.
1944 June 7, Winston Churchill, speech to House of Commons
The repeat that we use here is called a tactical, or tactic combinator. The behavior of repeat t is to loop through running t, running t on all generated subgoals, running t on their generated subgoals, and so on. When t fails at any point in this search tree, that particular subgoal is left to be handled by later tactics.
2013, Adam Chlipala, Certified Programming with Dependent Types

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From tactic + -al.