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manœuvre

manœuvre noun: dated spelling of manoeuvre.

Noun

manœuvre (plural manœuvres)

  1. Dated spelling of manoeuvre.
    • She delighted in schemes and in projects; she governed her husband by a series of manœuvres, whose only fault was their being entirely wasted; as a simple wish, openly expressed, would have answered every purpose.1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 25
    • […] but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manœuvres; and one had but to accept it — to answer what he asked […]1850, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Verb

manœuvre (third-person singular simple present manœuvres, present participle manœuvring, simple past and past participle manœuvred)

  1. Dated spelling of manoeuvre.
    • We can ask how long it was before the team scored its first goal; or how long the centre-forward spent in manœuvring the ball towards the goal; and even how long the ball was in flight between his kicking it and its going between the goal-posts. But we cannot ask how many seconds were occupied in...1954, Gilbert Ryle, “dilemma vii: Perception”, in Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page 103
    • Mr.Marples has thus manœuvred himself into a corner.1963 June, “Second thoughts on Beeching”, in Modern Railways, page 362

Examples of manœuvre in a sentence

  • Gregson and Lestrade had watched the manœuvres of their amateur companion with considerable curiosity and some contempt.1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:
  • Peter, forging ahead with the bag, stopped to see the result of these manœuvres.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 131:
  • […] we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre.1940, Winston Churchill, We shall fight on the beaches:
  • Another way of putting this is that Stalin paid the necessary attention to the detail of political manœuvre.1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages...

Forms of manœuvre

Noun
pluralmanœuvres
Verb
third-person singular presentmanœuvres
present participlemanœuvring
past participlemanœuvred
pastmanœuvred

Words formed from manœuvre

Phrases with manœuvre

Questions about manœuvre

What does manœuvre mean?
Manœuvre means dated spelling of manoeuvre.
How do you use manœuvre in a sentence?
Gregson and Lestrade had watched the manœuvres of their amateur companion with considerable curiosity and some contempt.
What part of speech is manœuvre?
Manœuvre can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of manœuvre?
The plural of manœuvre is manœuvres.

Words near manœuvre in the dictionary

  1. manœuvering
  2. manœuverings
  3. manœuvers
  4. manœuvrability
  5. manœuvrable
  6. manœuvre
  7. manœuvre the apostles
  8. manœuvreability
  9. manœuvreable
  10. manœuvred
  11. manœuvrer

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