manoeuvre

Meaning

Noun

UK, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.

Verb

UK, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.

Hyphenated as

ma‧noeu‧vre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/məˈnuːvə/

Etymology

From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk.