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change tact

change tact is the misconstruction of change tack.

Meaning of change tack

Verb

change tack (third-person singular simple present changes tack, present participle changing tack, simple past and past participle changed tack)

  1. To change course or heading.
    Synonyms:
    switch tack
  2. (broadly, figuratively) To take a different approach.
    • So MySpace has changed tack. What was seen as a competitor to traditional media platforms is starting to resemble one.2008 January 21, Brian Stelter, “MySpace changes tack to expand”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    switch tack

Questions about change tact

What is change tact the misconstruction of?
Change tact is the misconstruction of change tack.

Words near change tact in the dictionary

  1. change someone's mind
  2. change someone's tune
  3. change table
  4. change tables
  5. change tack
  6. change tact
  7. change the channel
  8. change the game
  9. change the leg
  10. change the record
  11. change the subject

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Adapted from Wiktionary: change tact (page history and authors); change tack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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