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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
maneuvering
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ diplomatic maneuverings
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Competent decisions require not only thoughtful consideration and thorough deliberation but also complicated maneuvering through many divergent interests.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maneuvering

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.]

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. To manage with address or art; to scheme.

Wiktionary
maneuvering

n. (context US gerund of maneuver English) An act in which something or someone maneuvers vb. (context US English) (present participle of maneuver English)

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Usage examples of "maneuvering".

Heinrich Adler was a patient man, but he much preferred facing an enemy in the open, one to one, without all of this sneaking and maneuvering.

One arm around Amri, Dana Ikoro was maneuvering his way through the kitchen door.

For reasons entirely unclear to Kerry, Thomas contrived every despicable, backbreaking chore he could throw at him, from maneuvering an ancient plow behind two old oxen, to duping him into climbing to the top of Din Fallon in search of a haggis nest.

I was maneuvering nervously in the lower hall, trying to catch John alone for a minute, when Bloch made my tact unnecessary.

Using one of his canes for leverage, he stood and finished pulling on his trousers, maneuvering with one hand until he could button the top fly button with his shirt mostly inside.

A console in the maneuvering room that controls the electrical distribution of the ship including the turbine generators and the battery.

Control panel in the maneuvering room where the Reactor Operator controls the reactor.

While the firefight was going on, people were maneuvering, under cover from our fire and the physical terrain, into positions close to the enemy.

Their mount, a sinuous jade seadragon, flowed toward the docks, maneuvering through the ruins of the half-submerged city.

But this morning the girls would have to stand in the cold a long time, for there was a sharp wind off the sea and the lumbering bulk of the carrier presented so much freeboard for the wind to blow against that tugs with limited maneuvering space could not hold her from crashing into the quay, and emergency measures were clearly necessary.

Josh suggested that if they were going to put wheels on a gasbag basket, it should be the smallest one, so that maneuvering it through the narrower tunnels would be possible.

He says Vordarian lost the war the hour Negri got away with Gregor, and the rest is just maneuvering to limit the losses.

The Piegan was maneuvering himself to a position immediately behind Tall Man when Longarm saw what he was up to and took a hand.

Developments of the war prove conclusively that the Kaiser has followed out the blood and iron politico-economic methods of Bismarck for the development of Prussian power and that while at times Germany has been reported to be maneuvering for peace, her peace moves have in reality been war moves, and that a truce would only give the Imperial Government time in which to further Prussianize and prepare for a greater world war the territory to the southeast which she has conquered under the guise of a friendly alliance.

After Nikki-after Charlie-she wanted to have a working life that depended not on slick maneuvering and sly positions, but which was anchored instead by kindness, which had some feeling connection to what surged through her when she held her child, the emotions she knew, knew were truly the best, the rightest things in life.