Usually means: Strategic movement to achieve goal.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. maneuver: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. maneuver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maneuver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maneuver: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maneuver: Vocabulary.com
  6. Maneuver, maneuver: Wordnik
  7. maneuver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. maneuver: Wiktionary
  9. maneuver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. maneuver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. maneuver: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. maneuver: Dictionary.com
  13. maneuver: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. maneuver: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Maneuver (disambiguation), Maneuver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Maneuver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. maneuver: Rhymezone
  18. maneuver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. maneuver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. maneuver: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. maneuver: Free Dictionary
  22. maneuver: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. maneuver: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. maneuver: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maneuver: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maneuver: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. maneuver: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. maneuver: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Maneuver: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See maneuverability as well.)

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

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