MANEUVER

maneuver

Noun



    

  1. A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
    

    Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.
    

    

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  2. A large training field-exercise of military troops.
    

    The army was on maneuvers.
    

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

    

    3. 

  3. An adroit or cunning action; a stratagem.
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Verb





    

  1. To move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
    2. 

  2. To guide, steer, manage purposefully
    3. 

  3. To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
    

    ''The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts
    

    

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