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maneuver

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Main Entry: maneuver
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: move, tactic

Synonyms:

action, angle, artifice, contrivance, curveball, demarche, device, dodge, fancy footwork, feint, finesse, gambit, game, gimmick, intrigue, jig, machination, manipulation, measure, movement, plan, play, plot, ploy, procedure, proceeding, ruse, scheme, shenanigans*, shuffle*, step, stratagem, stunt, subterfuge, trick
Main Entry: maneuver
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: military practice, operation

Synonyms:

battle, deployment, drill, evolution, exercise, measure, movement, parade, plan, procedure, proceeding, stratagem, tactics, war games
Main Entry: maneuver
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plan, scheme

Synonyms:

angle, beguile, cheat, come up with, con*, conspire, contrive, cook, design, devise, doctor, engineer, exploit, fence, finagle, finesse, go around, intrigue, jockey, leave holding the bag, machinate, manage, manipulate, move, navigate, operate, play, play games, plot, proceed, pull strings, push around, put one over, rig, scam, sham, shift, trick, upstage, wangle, work

Antonyms:

neglect
Main Entry: maneuver
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: direct physically

Synonyms:

deploy, dispense, drive, exercise, guide, handle, manipulate, move, navigate, negotiate, pilot, ply, steer, swing, wield

Antonyms:

leave alone
Main Entry: act
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: do something

Synonyms:

accomplish, achieve, begin, carry on, carry out, consummate, cook, create, develop, do, do a number, do one's thing, enforce, execute, function, get in there, go about, go for broke, go for it, go in for, go that route, go to town, intrude, knock off, labor, make progress, maneuver, move, officiate, operate, percolate*, perk*, perpetrate, persevere, persist, practice, preside, pursue, respond, serve, take effect, take part, take steps, take up, transort, undertake, work out
Notes: an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act

Antonyms:

abstain, cease, discontinue, give up, halt, hesitate, idle, refrain, stop
Main Entry: action
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: individual deed

Synonyms:

accomplishment, achievement, act, blow, commission, dealings, doing, effort, enterprise, execution, exercise, exertion, exploit, feat, handiwork, maneuver, manipulation, move, operation, performance, procedure, step, stroke, thrust, transaction, undertaking
Main Entry: angle for
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attempt to get

Synonyms:

aim for, be after, cast about for, connive, conspire, contrive, fish for, hint, hunt, invite, look for, maneuver, plan, plot, scheme, seek, solicit, strive, try for
Main Entry: artifice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hoax; clever act

Synonyms:

con, contrivance, device, dodge, expedient, gambit, gimmick, machination, maneuver, play, ploy, racket, ruse, savvy, scam*, stratagem, subterfuge, tactic, wile

Antonyms:

candor, frankness, honesty, honor, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, reality, sincerity, truthfulness
Main Entry: cajole
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attempt to coax; flatter

Synonyms:

apple polish, argue into, banter, beguile, blandish, bootlick, brownnose, build up, butter up, con, crowd, deceive, decoy, delude, dupe, entice, entrap, get around, get next to, hand a line, induce, influence, inveigle, jolly, lay it on thick, lure, make up to, maneuver, massage, mislead, oil, play up to, push, rub the right way, seduce, snow*, soap, soft-soap, soften, spread it on, stroke, suck up to, sweet-talk, sweeten up, tantalize, tempt, urge, wheedle, work on, work over

Antonyms:

bully, force, repel
Main Entry: chicanery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deception, trickery

Synonyms:

artifice, cheating, chicane, deviousness, dishonesty, dodge, double-crossing, double-dealing, duplicity, feint, fourberie, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, hanky-panky, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, sharp practice, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles

Antonyms:

forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness
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