Tactics are the clever short-term moves planned to beat this opponent today. Change the tactics, defensive tactics, a tactical foul.
The pair with strategy is the useful distinction: strategy decides what you are trying to achieve and tactics decide how you handle the next twenty minutes. An army with good tactics and no strategy wins battles and loses wars.
1nountacticsThe short-term moves planned to win a particular contest.
“The coach changed tactics at half-time, and the team began to attack more.”
tactics is a plan.