manoeuvre

verb

1 I manoeuvred the car into a parking space:

steer, guide, drive, negotiate, navigate, pilot, direct, manipulate, move, work, jockey.

2 he had manoeuvred things to suit himself:

manipulate, contrive, manage, engineer, devise, plan, plot, fix, organize, arrange, set up, orchestrate, choreograph, stage-manage;

informal wangle.

3 he began manoeuvring for the party leadership:

intrigue, plot, scheme, plan, lay plans, conspire, pull strings;

North American pull wires;

rare machinate.

noun

1 a tricky parking manoeuvre:

operation, exercise, activity, move, movement, action.

2 a series of diplomatic manoeuvres:

stratagem, tactic, gambit, ploy, trick, dodge, ruse, plan, scheme, operation, device, plot, machination, artifice, subterfuge, intrigue, palace intrigue, manipulation;

French démarche;

informal wangle.

3 (manoeuvres) large-scale military manoeuvres:

training exercises, exercises, war games, operations.

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