maneuvers

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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.

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”