Meaning

• The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.

  "Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics."

• Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.

• A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.

• A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.

• A controlled (especially skilful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.

  "Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver."

Meaning

• To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.

• To guide, steer, manage purposefully

• To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme

  "The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts"