Usually means: Sensitivity in handling difficult situations.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tact: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tact: Merriam-Webster
  3. tact: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tact: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tact: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tact: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tact, tact: Wordnik
  8. tact: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tact: Wiktionary
  10. tact: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tact: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tact: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. TACT: Dictionary.com
  14. tact: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tact: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. TACT (The Actors Company Theatre), Tact (psychology), Tact: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tact: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tact: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tact: Rhymezone
  20. tact, tact (de), tact (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tact: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. TACT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. tact: FreeDictionary.org
  24. tact: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tact: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tact-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tact: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TACT, tact-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. TACT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. t.a.c.t, tact: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See tacts as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.
noun:  Propriety; manners (etiquette).
noun:  The sense of touch; feeling.
noun:  (music) The stroke in beating time.
noun:  (psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
verb:  (psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant).
noun:  (slang) Clipping of tactic. [A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.]

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