English Explanatory Dictionary

maneuver

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
  2. Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
  3. A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
  4. A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.
  5. A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.
verb
  1. To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
  2. To guide, steer, manage purposefully
  3. To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme

Pronunciation

/məˈnuvɚ/ en-us-maneuver.ogg /məˈnuːvə/ en-uk-Manoeuvre.ogg /məˈnyːvɐ/ /maˈnyːvɐ/ /məˈnjuːvɚ/

Word forms

maneuver maneuvers manoeuvre manœuvre maneuvre manoeuver manœuver maneuvering maneuvered

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.

Synonyms

ease wrestle

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

Arabic: مُنَاوَرَة Belarusian: манёўр Belarusian: мане́ўр Belarusian: манэ́ўр Bulgarian: маньо́вър Bulgarian: мане́вра Czech: manévr Dutch: manoeuvre Esperanto: manovro Estonian: manööver Finnish: manööveri Finnish: liike French: manœuvre Galician: manobra German: Manöver Greek: ελιγμός Greek: μανούβρα Hebrew: תִּמְרוּן Hungarian: hadművelet Hungarian: manőver Italian: manovra Malay: olah gerak Norwegian Bokmål: manøver Persian: مانور Polish: manewr Portuguese: manobra Romanian: manevră Russian: манёвр Slovak: manéver Spanish: maniobra Swedish: manöver Ukrainian: мане́вр
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