How to pronounce “maneuver”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (military) The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units. [from 18th c.]
• Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem. [from 18th c.]
• A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity. [from 18th c.]
• (medicine) A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments. [from 18th c.]
• A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle. [from 18th c.]
• [Verb]
• (ambitransitive) To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
• (figurative, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
• (figurative, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme

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