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🚗 To move skillfully ♟️ To act strategically
to manoeuver

to manoeuver

7.2
To act skillfully to reach a goal in work or politics
  • verb
  • /məˈnuːvər/
translation icon : maniobrar
  • The chess player skillfully maneuvered his pieces to set up a checkmate.

Examples

  • The captain maneuvered the ship carefully into the narrow harbor entrance.

  • She maneuvered through the crowded market to reach her favorite shop.

  • I am not usually engaging in details with this because my manoeuvre is through the quantifiers.

Synonyms

to maneuver
vsto manoeuver
  • US
21 6.3

To plan and act carefully to reach a goal by guiding people or events

has identical meaning but is the alternate spelling used elsewhere

Antonyms

to miscalculate
23 4.5

To get an amount or time wrong

to blunder
7 4.4

To make a careless mistake by acting or speaking without thinking

How Skillful

to outmaneuver
  • US
15 7.7
to manoeuver
7.2
to move
79 1.0
to act
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

manoeuver infinitive
maneuver infinitive
manoeuvred past
maneuvered past
manoeuvred past participle
maneuvered past participle
manoeuvring present participle
maneuvering present participle
manoeuvers third person singular
maneuvers third person singular

Etymology

Manoeuver also carries the idea of 'handling' people or plans, from the same 'hand' root seen in manipulate. That's why to manoeuver in politics or business means to act skillfully to reach a particular goal.