a plan, procedure, or expedient for promoting a desired end or result.
adjective
4.
of or pertaining to arrangement or order; tactical.
Origin
1560-70;Neo-Latintacticus < Greektaktikós fit for arranging or ordering, equivalent to tak- (base of tássein (Attictáttein) to arrange, put in order) + -tikos-tic
It's all obfuscating nonsense, of course, a scare tactic employed for political ends.
Faced with owning up to higher borrowing, he would have liked a diversionary tactic.
Now, a pair of biomechanics researchers has offered a scientific explanation of how this counterintuitive tactic worked.
Therefore, what evolution thought to be natural selection is actually tactic regression.
Let's stop using the mythical global warming scare tactic to manage everything.
Great tactic to try with kids who keep popping out of their rooms at bedtime.
Now, thousands of prisoners in four jails in the country are resorting to the same tactic.
The surprise tactic puts small fish to flight, which the seal then devours.
It has always been a major tactic of these types of people to argue against those who have limited ability to argue back.
Either way, it means a tactic intended to divert attention away from something.
British Dictionary definitions for tactic
tactic
/ˈtæktɪk/
noun
1.
a piece of tactics; tactical move See also tactics
Word Origin and History for tactic
n.
1766, from Modern Latin tactica, from Greek taktike (tekhne) "(art of) arrangement," from fem. of taktikos (see tactics). Earlier it meant "a tactician" (1630s), and was in use as an adjective meaning "tactical" (c.1600).