Maneuver

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
 * Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.
 * 1) 🇺🇸 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.

Verb

 * 1) 🇺🇸  To move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
 * 2)   To guide, steer, manage purposefully
 * 3)   To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
 * ''The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts

Adjectives for Maneuver
adroit; loving; little; ingenious; thrilling; sordid; political; important; inexplicable; pernicious; odious; shabby; perfunctory; legal; sensational; innocent; dishonest; decisive; skillful; polished; ticklish; ladylike; bold; engineering; intricate.

Verbs for Maneuver
achieve—; circumvent—; commit—; con¬trive—; design—; detail—; enact—; evolve —; execute—; expedite—; organize—; outline—; participate in—; perform—; perpetrate—; practise—; project—; propose;sanction—; systematize—; transact—; — conceals; —juggles; —temporizes.

Adverbs for Maneuver
skillfully; adroitly; ingeniously; thrillingly; dexterously; perfunctorily; legally; sensationally; decisively; diplomatically; boldly; rashly; daringly; intricately.

Thesaurus
accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, act on, act upon, acta, action, ad hoc measure, adventure, amphibious operations, angle, answer, art, artful dodge, artifice, bank, be responsible for, bear a hand, beguile, blind, blow, bold, brew, cabal, call the signals, captain, carry on, carry out, carry through, chicanery, collude, combined operations, command, complot, concoct, conduct, connive, conspiracy, conspire, contrivance, contrive, control, convoy, cook up, countermine, countermove, counterplot, coup, courageous, course of action, crab, craft, cute trick, dauntless, deal with, dealings, deceit, deed, demarche, design, device, dip, direct, dispense, do something, do something about, dodge, doing, doings, drive, dry run, effort, endeavor, engineer, enterprise, execute a maneuver, expedient, exploit, fait accompli, fakement, fearless, feat, feather, feint, fetch, finagle, finesse, fishtail, fluid operations, frame, frame up, gambit, game, gerrymander, gest, get with it, gimmick, go, govern, grift, hand, handiwork, handle, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, head, head up, heave in together, improvisation, intrepid, intrigue, jig, job, jockey, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, keep in formation, keep pointed, keep station, knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, lay a plot, lead, lead on, lift a finger, little game, logistics, loop, machinate, machination, maintain position, make go, make the rules, makeshift, manage, maneuvers, manful, manipulate, manipulation, mastermind, means, measure, military operations, minor operations, mission, move, movement, navigate, officer, operate, operation, operations, order, overseas operations, overt act, passage, perform on, performance, pilot, pis aller, plan, play, play games, plot, plow, ploy, ply, porpoise, practice, prescribe, procedure, proceed, proceed with, proceeding, production, pull out, pull strings, pull the strings, pull up, push down, quarterback, racket, red herring, regulate, res gestae, resort, resource, rig, roll, run, ruse, scheme, see to, shake-up, shift, sideslip, skid, skipper, sleight, solution, spin, spiral, staff work, steam in line, steer, step, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, strike a blow, stroke, stroke of policy, stunt, subterfuge, swing, tactic, take a hand, take action, take care of, take command, take measures, take steps, take the lead, temporary expedient, thing, thing done, tour de force, transaction, trick, trickery, trump, turn, unafraid, undaunted, undertaking, undulate, valiant, valorous, wangle, war game, war plans, wield, wile, wily device, work, working hypothesis, working proposition, works, yaw

Alternative forms

 * manoeuvre, manœuvre , manoeuver

Etymology
From manoeuvre: and manœuvrer:, from  manovre:, from  manopera:, manuopera:, from manu: + operari:. First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 ) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the *undefined:. Compare Old English handweorc:, handgeweorc:, German Handwerk:.

Noun

 * Arabic: مناورة
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 * German:


 * Greek: ελιγμός
 * Hungarian:, manőver
 * Polish: manewr
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: maniobra


 * Dutch: manoeuvre, (veld)oefening
 * Esperanto:
 * German:


 * Greek: ελιγμός, στρατήγημα
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian: манёвры


 * : manœuvre
 * : Manöver
 * : manovra
 * : manovra


 * : manøveren
 * : manevră
 * : manobra
 * : maniobra

Verb

 * Dutch: manoeuvreren, laveren
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ελίσσω
 * Hungarian: manőverez


 * Italian:
 * Romanian: manevra
 * Russian: маневрировать, сманеврировать
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: manövrera


 * Greek: ελίσσομαι


 * Swedish: manövrera


 * Dutch: manoeuvreren, intrigeren
 * Greek: ελίσσομαι


 * Swedish: manövrera, intrigera