manœuvring, vbl. n.
(məˈnuːvrɪŋ)
[f. manœuvre v. + -ing1.]
The action of manœuvre v.
| 1787 I. Landmann tr. Elem. Tacticks iii. 170 The advancing and manœuvring with a line, will never be well performed, if the battalions are not so perfectly well exercised. 1858 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ix. x. II. 520 The Campaign passed into a series of advancings, retreatings [etc.], painful manœuvrings, on both sides of the Rhine. 1883 R. B. Smith Life Ld. Lawrence I. 178 The reputation which John Lawrence acquired..by the masterly manœuvring of a small body of police. |
| attrib. 1814 Jane Austen Mansf. Park I. v. 93 Speaking from my own observation, it [sc. marriage] is a manœuvring business. 1877 Daily News 5 Oct. 5/3 Their principal army is wanting in manœuvring power. |