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- manoeuvre (UK), manœuvre (archaic), manoeuver (considered a mis-spelling by some)
Etymology[]
From Middle French manoeuvre (“‘manipulation, maneuver’”) (noun) and manœuvrer (verb), from Old French maneuvre, from Vulgar Latin *manuoperari, from Latin manu (“‘by hand’”) + operari (“‘to work (deponent)’”)
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Maneuver ({{{1}}})
- (US) A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
- Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.
- (US, often, plural) A large training field exercise of military troops.
- The American army was on maneuvers.
- Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.
Translations[]
a movement, often one performed with difficulty
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a large training exercise of military troops
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to Maneuver (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)
- (US) (transitive) To move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
- (figuratively) (transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
- (figuratively) (intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
- The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts
Translations[]
to move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position
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to guide, steer, manage purposefully
(intransitive) to intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
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