"manœuvre" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1850, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre",
          "text": "[…] but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manœuvres; and one had but to accept it — to answer what he asked […]",
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          "ref": "1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet",
          "text": "Gregson and Lestrade had watched the manœuvres of their amateur companion with considerable curiosity and some contempt.",
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          "ref": "1940, Winston Churchill, We shall fight on the beaches",
          "text": "[…] we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre.",
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          "ref": "1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 74–75",
          "text": "All early accounts agree that one of Stalin’s characteristics was ‘laziness’ or ‘indolence’ - which Bukharin impressed on Trotsky as Stalin’s ‘most striking quality’. Trotsky remarked that Stalin ‘never did any serious work’ but was always ‘busy with his intrigues’. Another way of putting this is that Stalin paid the necessary attention to the detail of political manœuvre.",
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          "ref": "2003, David Miller, Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, page 7",
          "text": "[…] and the belief that states had increasingly little room for manœuvre if they wanted their people to benefit from it.",
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          "text": "We can ask how long it was before the team scored its first goal; or how long the centre-forward spent in manœuvring the ball towards the goal; and even how long the ball was in flight between his kicking it and its going between the goal-posts. But we cannot ask how many seconds were occupied in the scoring of the goal.",
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