0 past simple and past participle of outmanoeuvre --
1 to cleverly get an advantage over someone, especially a competitor: --
In the negotiations, he outmanoeuvred his rivals by offering a higher price.
After one draw game, the players successfully outmanoeuvred the farmer and won the $5,000.
They were outmanoeuvred and outfought.
Too often, our best engineers are promoted on to boards where they find themselves completely outmanoeuvred by accountants who do not know anything about the fundamentals of engineering.
The neighbour outmanoeuvred the rich man.
He is not a person who is likely to be outmanoeuvred.
I think that we have allowed ourselves to be outmanoeuvred.
In that industry we are being outmanoeuvred by countries that subsidise their shipbuilding industries.
I belong to a race which has somehow survived: always outnumbered, never outmanoeuvred.