MANEUVER

maneuver

Noun


  1. A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
    Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.
  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. An adroit or cunning action; a stratagem.

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


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