maneuvers
Meaning of maneuvers
noun
- The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.
- 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.
- A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.
- A controlled (especially skilful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.
Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.
- To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
- To guide, steer, manage purposefully
- To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts
Information about maneuvers
- The singular form of maneuvers is: maneuver.
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Hyphenation of maneuvers
ma-neu-vers
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- maneuvers is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Anagrams of maneuvers
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