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Maneuver
Definitions
- 1 The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units. US
"The army was on maneuvers."
- 2 an action aimed at evading an opponent wordnet
- 3 Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem. US
"“This,” cried he, “is a manœuvre I have been some time expecting: but Mr. Harrel, though artful and selfish, is by no means deep.”"
- 4 a move made to gain a tactical end wordnet
- 5 A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity. US
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- 6 a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill wordnet
- 7 A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments. US
"The otorhinolaryngologist performed an Epley maneuver and the patient was relieved of his vertigo."
- 8 a military training exercise wordnet
- 9 A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle. US
"Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver."
- 10 a plan for attaining a particular goal wordnet
- 1 To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position. US, ambitransitive
- 2 perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense wordnet
- 3 To guide, steer, manage purposefully US, figuratively, transitive
- 4 direct the course; determine the direction of travelling wordnet
- 5 To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme US, figuratively, intransitive
"The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts"
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- 6 act in order to achieve a certain goal wordnet
Etymology
From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, maneuver”) and manouvrer (“to maneuver”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labor”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handuwerk (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk. The verb is a doublet of the verb manure.
From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, maneuver”) and manouvrer (“to maneuver”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labor”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handuwerk (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk. The verb is a doublet of the verb manure.
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