Noun: maneuver
| Singular | maneuver |
| Plural | maneuvers |
Sample Sentences
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The army was on maneuvers.
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Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.
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“This,” cried he, “is a manœuvre I have been some time expecting: but Mr. Harrel, though artful and selfish, is by no means deep.” [1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.v.7:]
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The otorhinolaryngologist performed an Epley maneuver and the patient was relieved of his vertigo.
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Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.
Nouns inflected like maneuver
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Old English Nouns '
handweorc', Old English Nouns '
handġeweorc', German Nouns '
Handwerk'.
Verbs referencing "maneuver"
English Nouns
manure.