noun Download 🔗Share The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units. Examples : "Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics." military action plan vehicle war position Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem. Examples : "To get a better parking spot, he used the clever maneuver of pretending to wait for someone to leave. " action plan military politics business Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity. Examples : "The basketball player's quick maneuver around the defender allowed him to score the winning point. " body action ability vehicle technical military sport Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments. Examples : "The doctor explained that the Leopold maneuver would help determine the baby's position in the womb. " medicine technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A controlled (especially skilful) movement taken while steering a vehicle. Examples : "Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver." vehicle action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position. Examples : "The driver had to carefully maneuver the large truck through the narrow city streets. " action vehicle position technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To guide, steer, manage purposefully Examples : "The driver had to carefully maneuver the car through the crowded parking lot. " action direction vehicle military nautical technology machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme Examples : "The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts" politics government action business plan character moral Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
