Maneuver

Quick meaning: Maneuver is a noun meaning Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.

Meaning

Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.

More Meanings

1. A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
2. (medicine) A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.
3. A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.
4. (ambitransitive) To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
5. (figurative, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
6. (figurative, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
7. (military) The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.

Example Sentences

The army was on maneuvers.

Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.

The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts

Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.

Word Forms

• maneuvers
• manoeuvre
• maneuvre
• manoeuver
• maneuvering
• maneuvered

Synonyms for maneuver

Depending on context, synonyms include ease, wrestle, direct, head, point, play.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include guide, tactic, operate, steer, head, point.

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