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.
I belong to a race which has somehow survived: always outnumbered, never outmanoeuvred.
In that industry we are being outmanoeuvred by countries that subsidise their shipbuilding industries.
I think that we have allowed ourselves to be outmanoeuvred.
He is not a person who is likely to be outmanoeuvred.
The neighbour outmanoeuvred the rich man.
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.
They were outmanoeuvred and outfought.
After one draw game, the players successfully outmanoeuvred the farmer and won the $5,000.