maneuver
The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; later also a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
Example
“The army was on maneuvers.”
Other meanings
Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
Related words
- countermaneuver
- abdominal-thrust maneuver
- anti-G straining maneuver
- Epley maneuver
- Heimlich maneuver
- hook maneuver
- Immelmann maneuver
- mass of maneuver
- Pinard's maneuver
- PIT maneuver
- Semont maneuver
- Valsalva maneuver
Word history
From Medieval Latin "manopera".
Where this comes from
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