The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maneuver \Ma*neu"ver\, Manoeuvre \Ma*n[oe]u"vre\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Maneuveredor Man[oe]uvred; p. pr. & vb. n. Maneuvering, or Man[oe]uvring.] [Cf. F. man[oe]uvrer. See Maneuver, n.]
To perform a movement or movements in military or naval tactics; to make changes in position with the intention of getting an advantage in attack or defense.
Hence: To make changes in one's approach to solving a problem, so as to achieve maximum advantage in a changing situation; -- used especially in competitive situations, as in politics, diplomacy, or sports.
To manage with address or art; to scheme.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: maneuver)
Usage examples of "maneuvered".
Bal-Simba as they maneuvered through the aisles and past the occasional slot player.
The crew, in antiradiation space suits, maneuvered a small atomic earth blaster out of the ship to bore a cavity for the rocket-thrust device.
One of the free fallers, an obese woman, maneuvered toward the window.
Down on Calle Embarcadero, Don Esteban drew up his guards and gentlemen in ranks and waited patiently, trying to ignore heat and sweat and insects while the four huge, elegant, high-masted galleons slowly maneuvered themselves about the cramped harbor in search of anchorages that suited their masters.
The military police maneuvered it through automated doors toward a freight hauler with terrain treads, and two more legionnaires eased it aboard.
They were swept along with the marchers for about half a block, in the course of which the stranger maneuvered them outward toward one side of the flow.
Enkidu accepted the platter and maneuvered it onto his lap, admiring its gleaming abundance: yellow apricots and purple plums, medlars and bananas, and even a decanter of spiced palm wine.
David Lewis of the Australian National University of Canberra talks about the amazing sea journeys of Polynesian navigators who accurately maneuvered their ships two thousand miles or more between islands in the Pacific.
After what seemed an eternity to Rollie, they arrived at the bluff and maneuvered the truck into position to block the gulch, formed by an outreaching foot of the high bluff.
Large telescopes are cumbersome things, and much of their operational time is consumed with being maneuvered into position.
As he maneuvered around the lambent little land mine, playing the Shell like a finely tuned instrument, he examined the intricate knot of toxic tocsins with every scanning tool at his disposal.
A couple of matronly waitresses in red and white aprons and wilting caps maneuvered laden trays skillfully between the scarred red vinyl banquettes, and blue cigarette smoke wreathed to the nicotine-yellow ceiling.
The replacement crystal had to be lifted into the core, boosted slowly into the catching manipulators of the waldos, and then gently maneuvered into the main cradle.
As he maneuvered the rented Corsica out of the parking lot, snow splat ted against his windshield in big, wet flakes, and he turned his wipers on to keep up with the pace.
We were riding in a horse-drawn calash, jostling hard as the driver maneuvered around the evening theater traffic.