remaneuver
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Etymology edit
Verb edit
remaneuver (third-person singular simple present remaneuvers, present participle remaneuvering, simple past and past participle remaneuvered)
- To maneuver again, especially when the maneuver is to change or correct the result of the previous maneuver.
- 1956, American Universities Field Staff, Fieldstaff Reports: Southeast Asia series - Volumes 4-6, page 6:
- Maude Purvis was the granddaughter of an American Southern gentleman, Robert Louis Earle Purvis, who somehow mismaneuvered himself into association with the Yankees during the Civil War and quickly thereafter remaneuvered himself to distant Batavia where he found a happy and prosperous haven .
- 1992, Karen Kringle, Vital Ties: A Novel, page 246:
- He ground his tractor into reverse and backed away from the blower faster than he usually did, backing the eighteen-foot-long , ten-ton load to a point where he could remaneuver and come in correctly.
- 1993, William L. Lebovich, Design for Dignity: Studies in Accessibility, page 187:
- Like all the push plates in the building (e.g., at the bathrooms and at the guard desk) , this plate is along the accessible path so the person using it does not have to detour to reach it or remaneuver his or her wheelchair after using it to get to the door.
- 2016, Rachel Starnes, The War at Home, page 126:
- At one particularly bad moment, I was clinging with two fingers and a toe to a wall with no other visible holds, and Ross was so far above me, and the wind was so strong, that he never heard me shouting, and then all-out screaming, for him to let some slack into the rope so I could remaneuver.
Noun edit
remaneuver (plural remaneuvers)
- An instance of remaneuvering.
- 1996, Robert Eaton Kelley, The First Book of Timothy, page 236:
- Timothy belatedly thought to ask, for no reason at all that he could think of, asked of no one in particular, as if he had been delayed, his life delayed by multiplying introductions to life, but Philly Morris and Gloria Dehaven had abruptly turned their considerable backs, pretending, as a sudden, surprising remaneuver, perhaps, to ignore Timothy, to leave him awash in introductions, thereby foreclosing any introduction at all to the people of Anybodys.
- 2010, Shane Borrowman, Stuart Brown, Thomas Miller, Renewing Rhetoric's Relation to Composition:
- The whole idea behind these Saturday maneuvers and remaneuvers is to build strength and endurance.