maneuver

• action
• address
• angle
• arrange
• artifice
• assault
• attack
• bandwagon
• battle
• beguile
• bid
• blind
• blitz
• bluff
• brew
• bring off
• campaign
• captain
• carry off
• carry out
• cause
• cheat
• cheating
• chicanery
• come to grips with
• come up with
• command
• compass
• con
• concert
• conclude
• concoct
• conduct
• connive
• conspire
• contrivance
• contrive
• control
• cook
• cozenage
• craft
• crookery
• crusade
• cunning
• curveball
• deception
• demarche
• deploy
• deployment
• design
• device
• devise
• direct
• dispense
• doctor
• dodge
• drill
• drive
• dupery
• duplicity
• end run
• engineer
• enterprise
• evolution
• exercise
• exploit
• fakery
• fancy footwork
• feint
• fence
• fetch
• field
• finagle
• finesse
• flimflam
• frame
• front
• gambit
• game
• gerrymander
• get off
• gimmick
• go around
• guide
• hack
• hammer out
• handle
• hatch
• have a grip on
• initiative
• intrigue
• jig
• jockey
• juggernaut
• juggle
• jugglery
• knack
• leave holding the bag
• legerdemain
• machinate
• machination
• manage
• manipulate
• manipulation
• march
• mastermind
• measure
• micromanage
• mission
• move
• movement
• navigate
• negotiate
• offensive
• operate
• parade
• pilot
• plan
• play
• play games
• plot
• ploy
• ply
• procedure
• proceed
• proceeding
• project
• pull
• pull strings
• push
• push around
• put one over
• quarterback
• regulate
• rig
• run
• ruse
• scam
• scheme
• sham
• shenanigan
• shenanigans
• shift
• shuffle
• skulduggery
• skullduggery
• sleight
• smoke screen
• steer
• step
• stratagem
• stunt
• subterfuge
• swindling
• swing
• tactics
• take
• treat
• trick
• trickery
• undertaking
• upstage
• wangle
• war games
• wield
• wile
• work
• work out

• blow
• bobble
• botch
• bungle
• butcher
• cessation
• destroy
• discourage
• disorganize
• dissuade
• flub
• foozle
• forget
• fumble
• honesty
• ignorance
• inaction
• inactivity
• leave alone
• louse up
• mangle
• mishandle
• muff
• neglect
• openness
• remain
• scamp
• stop
• stoppage

• noun
  1. The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
  2. Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
  3. A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
  4. A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.
  5. A controlled (especially skilful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.
• verb
  1. To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
  2. To guide, steer, manage purposefully.
  3. To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme.

• The pilot skillfully executed a complex maneuver to avoid the storm.
• He had to maneuver his car through the narrow alleyway.
• The chess player made a brilliant maneuver, capturing his opponent's queen.
• She performed a graceful maneuver during her gymnastics routine.
• The driver carefully planned his maneuver to overtake the slower vehicle.

ease

face off

gag

hack

machinate

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