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manoeuvre

manoeuvre

noun mah-NUVR Rare
Travel & Places Movement

Also means

unskilled worker

Usage Note

Manoeuvre (also spelled manœuvre) has two main senses: a tactical or physical movement (une manœuvre militaire, une manœuvre de stationnement) and, as a masculine noun, an unskilled manual labourer (un manœuvre). The gender shifts with the sense: the tactical sense is feminine (une manœuvre), the labourer masculine (un manœuvre). The verb manœuvrer means to manoeuvre.

Examples

"Cette manœuvre de parking était difficile."

Natural Translation

That parking manoeuvre was difficult.

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