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Definition maneuver

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 *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English hand?eweorc, German Handwerk. The verb is a doublet of the verb manure.

Noun

maneuver (plural maneuvers) (American spelling)

1. A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
2. (often in the plural) A large training field-exercise of military troops.
3. An adroit or cunning action; a stratagem.
4. (medicine) A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.

Verb

maneuver (third-person singular simple present maneuvers, present participle maneuvering, simple past and past participle maneuvered) (American spelling)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme

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