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