Meaning of Manoeuvre | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver.
2. Dated spelling of manoeuvre.
3. Chiefly Brit. maneuver.
4. to (cause to) perform manoeuvres. She had difficulty manoeuvring her car into the narrow space. inkry, beweeg يَنْجَح في مُهِمَّه صَعْبَه маневрирам manobrar manévrovat manövrieren manøvrere; styre ελίσσομαι, μανουβράρω maniobrar manööverdama مانور دادن käsitellä faire manœuvrer לְתַמרֵן युक्ति चाल चलना kretati, ravnati manőverez mengemudikan stjórna með lagni fare manovra con, manovrare 巧みに動かす 전술적 전개를 하다 manevruoti manevrēt mengemudikan manoeuvrerenmanøvrere manewrować مانور ښودل manobrar a ...
5. a contrived, complicated, and possibly deceptive plan or action: political manoeuvres.
6. a movement or action requiring dexterity and skill
7. (Military) a. a tactic or movement of one or a number of military or naval units
8. (Aeronautics) a planned movement of an aircraft in flight
9. (Nautical Terms) any change from the straight steady course of a ship
10. (tr) to contrive or accomplish with skill or cunning
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11. (intr) to manipulate situations, etc, in order to gain some end: to manoeuvre for the leadership.
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12. (intr) to perform a manoeuvre or manoeuvres
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Examples

“The system also reacts to unexpected traffic situations and handles them independently by employing evasive manoeuvres within the lane or by braking manoeuvres”

“She delighted in schemes and in projects; she governed her husband by a series of manœuvres, whose only fault was their being entirely wasted; as a simple wish, openly expressed, would have answered every purpose.”

“[…] but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manœuvres; and one had but to accept it — to answer what he asked […]”

“Gregson and Lestrade had watched the manœuvres of their amateur companion with considerable curiosity and some contempt.”

“Peter, forging ahead with the bag, stopped to see the result of these manœuvres.”

“[…] we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre.”

“All early accounts agree that one of Stalin’s characteristics was ‘laziness’ or ‘indolence’ - which Bukharin impressed on Trotsky as Stalin’s ‘most striking quality’. Trotsky remarked that Stalin ‘never did any serious work’ but was always ‘busy with his intrigues’. Another way of putting this is that Stalin paid the necessary attention to the detail of political manœuvre.”

“[…] and the belief that states had increasingly little room for manœuvre if they wanted their people to benefit from it.”

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