manoeuvre

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Still, $50/user/year doesn't give you that much room for manoeuvre as a startup...

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Quick take

a plan for attaining a particular goal

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of manoeuvre gathered in one view.

noun

a plan for attaining a particular goal

noun

a military training exercise

noun

a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill; "he made a great maneuver"; "the runner was out on a play by the shortstop"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for manoeuvre.

noun

a plan for attaining a particular goal

noun

a military training exercise

noun

a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill; "he made a great maneuver"; "the runner was out on a play by the shortstop"

noun

a move made to gain a tactical end

noun

an action aimed at evading an opponent

verb

act in order to achieve a certain goal; "He maneuvered to get the chairmanship"; "She maneuvered herself into the directorship"

verb

direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

verb

perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense

Example sentences

Still, $50/user/year doesn't give you that much room for manoeuvre as a startup...

Status Quo is death because then we become the old and some new group who isn't us will out innovate, out manoeuvre us.

Which actually is a pretty awkward manoeuvre in itself.

"In the anechnoic chamber, you take away the perceptual cues that allow you to balance and manoeuvre.

The manoeuvre gave them an impressive view of the big collector bowl atop the machine, its interior velvety black.

Their favourite manoeuvre is to take deposits from money market funds and park them overnight at the Fed, earning millions of dollars risk-free.

The move is probably just the good sense to get in on a growing company that they can integrate with their platformdoubling, of course, as a defensive manoeuvre.

I haven't studied this law in detail, but it expect it is worded to avoid precisely this sort of manoeuvre, because the implication is quite clear - you have no right to privacy.

As you correctly point out, the seats in the back of the plane are horribly, awfully cramped, making it impossible for business guys to manoeuvre their laptops without elbowing each other.

I would be most in favour for attempts at drop in compatibility and actually find Google's incompatible embrace and extend commercial manoeuvre quite unsympathetic.

I had assumed that the pun would excuse the sexist connotations of upskirt, that it would be an amusing bait-and-switch manoeuvre, that the author wanted to be able to say, "Hey, you thought I was being misogynistic, but in fact the error was yours when you failed to recognise my magnificently subtle wordplay, you philistine!