Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with manoeuvre in British Collocation
manoeuvre
noun
countable
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Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
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What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
done in order to avoid something
Someone had put a line across the canal to snag our propeller, but we saw it in time and made an evasive manoeuvre.
difficult or dangerous
He was excellent, taking us safely in to locks and doing all of the tricky manoeuvres.
brave
Eventually he took the lead with a brave manoeuvre at Paddock Hill Bend.
of a particular type
There have been desperate bureaucratic manoeuvres to try and deal with the crisis.
done in order to get advantage for yourself
The opposition saw the president’s pledges as a cynical manoeuvre to allow him to retain his grip on power.
of an aircraft
Once at a safe height, your instructor will demonstrate some basic aerobatic manoeuvres.
of a vehicle
The crash was the result of an overtaking manoeuvre that went wrong.
Road safety campaigns need to focus on how to negotiate bends and junctions, and how to carry out overtaking manoeuvres.