- [countable] a movement performed with care and skill
- a complicated/skillful maneuver
- You will be asked to perform some standard maneuvers during your driving test.
Extra Examples- The pilot has to carry out a series of complex maneuvers.
- Careful—this is a tricky maneuver.
- They attempted the maneuver five or six times.
- [countable, uncountable] a clever plan, action or movement that is used to give somebody an advantage
- diplomatic maneuvers
- a complex maneuver in a game of chess
- The amendment was somehow introduced by political maneuver.
Extra Examples- Her withdrawal from the contest was a tactical maneuver.
- It was difficult to keep track of his political maneuvers.
- She defended her latest maneuver in a letter to the press.
- This could be a clever pre-election maneuver.
- maneuvers[plural] military exercises involving a large number of soldiers, ships, etc.
- on maneuvers The army is on maneuvers in the desert.
Idioms
See maneuver in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryfreedom of/room for maneuver
- the chance to change the way that something happens and influence decisions that are made
- Small farmers have limited room for maneuver.
Extra Examples- The economic conditions are restricting the bank's freedom of maneuver.
- The government has very little room for maneuver on this issue.
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