manoeuvre

CEFRB2

/məˈnuːvə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A careful movement or action used to achieve a result.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver.

Examples

  • Birds change the shape of their wings to turn and manoeuvre.

  • Do you know the Heimlich manoeuvre?

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
2
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

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In context

  • The system also reacts to unexpected traffic situations and handles them independently by employing evasive manoeuvres within the lane or by braking manoeuvres

  • Three pairs of double doors are provided on each side, wide enough to take pallet trucks, and strengthened floors to allow the trucks to manoeuvre inside the vehicle.

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The driver had to blank carefully through the narrow street filled with parked cars.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk.