maneuver
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
medicine
military
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, maneuver”) and manouvrer (“to maneuver”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labor”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handuwerk (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk. The verb is a doublet of the verb manure.
Inflected forms:
form: maneuvers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manoeuvre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: manœuvre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: maneuvre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: manoeuver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: manœuver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: maneuvers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: maneuvering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: maneuvered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: maneuvered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: manoeuvre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: manœuvre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: maneuvre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: manoeuver
pos: verb
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: manœuver
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The army was on maneuvers.
Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.
gloss: Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: “This,” cried he, “is a manœuvre I have been some time expecting: but Mr. Harrel, though artful and selfish, is by no means deep.”
gloss: A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The otorhinolaryngologist performed an Epley maneuver and the patient was relieved of his vertigo.
gloss: A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.
gloss: To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
pos: verb
tags: US
ambitransitive
gloss: To guide, steer, manage purposefully
pos: verb
tags: US
figuratively
transitive
gloss: To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
pos: verb
tags: US
figuratively
intransitive
examples: The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts
Derived words: abdominal-thrust maneuver
anti-G straining maneuver
Epley maneuver
Heimlich maneuver
hook maneuver
Immelmann maneuver
Lempert maneuver
mass of maneuver
Pinard's maneuver
PIT maneuver
room for maneuver
Semont maneuver
Valsalva maneuver
countermaneuver
maneuverability
maneuverable
maneuverer
mismaneuver
outmaneuver
remaneuver
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُنَاوَرَة
roman: munāwara
lang: Belarusian
word: манёўр
roman: manjówr
lang: Belarusian
word: мане́ўр
roman: manjéwr
lang: Belarusian
word: манэ́ўр
roman: manéwr
lang: Bulgarian
word: маньо́вър
roman: manjóvǎr
lang: Bulgarian
word: мане́вра
roman: manévra
lang: Czech
word: manévr
lang: Dutch
word: manoeuvre
lang: Esperanto
word: manovro
lang: Estonian
word: manööver
lang: Finnish
word: manööveri
lang: Finnish
word: liike
lang: French
word: manœuvre
lang: Galician
word: manobra
lang: German
word: Manöver
lang: Greek
word: ελιγμός
roman: eligmós
lang: Greek
word: μανούβρα
roman: manoúvra
lang: Hebrew
word: תִּמְרוּן
roman: timrun
lang: Hungarian
word: hadművelet
lang: Hungarian
word: manőver
lang: Italian
word: manovra
lang: Malay
word: olah gerak
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: manøver
lang: Persian
word: مانور
roman: mânovr
lang: Polish
word: manewr
lang: Portuguese
word: manobra
lang: Romanian
word: manevră
lang: Russian
word: манёвр
roman: manjóvr
lang: Russian
word: мане́вр
roman: manévr
lang: Slovak
word: manéver
lang: Spanish
word: maniobra
lang: Swedish
word: manöver
lang: Ukrainian
word: мане́вр
roman: manévr