outmaneuvering
Gaining strategic advantage
Outmaneuvering is gaining advantage over an opponent through superior strategy or positioning.
The word comes from military tactics—physically moving troops to a more favorable position than the enemy—but now applies broadly to any competitive situation: She outmaneuvered her rivals for the promotion.
The spelling outmanoeuvring appears in British English.
Arranging for future events
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- schemingCrafty and calculating
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
shrewdness · gamesmanship · stratagem · plotting · gameplan · adaptation · analysis · outsmarting
At the sides of
- feintDeceptive mock attack
- encirclementSurrounding enemy forces completely
- pincerGrasping claw organ
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
diversion · counterattack · guerrilla · infiltration · reconnaissance · positioning · evasion · retreat
Exceeding another's speed
- outflankingAttacking from the side
- outplayingExceeding another's performance
- outdoingSurpassing in performance
- bestingOvercoming in competition
defeating · overcoming · prevailing · edging · overtaking · surpassing · outclassing · outperforming
Deliberate deception or fraud
- guileSly, strategic dishonesty
- subterfugeDeliberate deception to conceal
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
- ruseDeliberate act of deception
artifice · sleight · feigning · misdirection · duplicity · craftiness · wiles · chicanery
planning
Arranging for future events
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- schemingCrafty and calculating
cunning · shrewdness · gamesmanship · stratagem · plotting · gameplan · adaptation · analysis · outsmarting · outthinking
flanking
At the sides of
- feintDeceptive mock attack
- encirclementSurrounding enemy forces completely
- pincerGrasping claw organ
ambush · diversion · counterattack · guerrilla · infiltration · reconnaissance · positioning · evasion · retreat · bluff
outpacing
Exceeding another's speed
- outflankingAttacking from the side
- outplayingExceeding another's performance
- outdoingSurpassing in performance
besting · defeating · overcoming · prevailing · edging · overtaking · surpassing · outclassing · outperforming · dominating
trickery
Deliberate deception or fraud
- guileSly, strategic dishonesty
- subterfugeDeliberate deception to conceal
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
ruse · artifice · sleight · feigning · misdirection · duplicity · craftiness · wiles · chicanery · bluffing
- competitivenessrivalry, vying, contending, outdoing, outperforming
- cunningcunning, craftiness, crafty, guile, slyness
- strategy tacticsplanning, scheming, positioning, timing, bluffing
- competitive strategystrategy, tactics, game theory, bluffing, cunning
- evasionevasion, avoiding, avoids, evade, dodging
- outperformingsurpassing, exceeding, excelling, outperforming, outdoing
outmaneuveringoverpowering
Too intense to withstand
brute forcing · brute-forcing · bulldozing · steamrolling · overwhelming
outmaneuveringblundering
Acting with clumsy incompetence
floundering · fumbling · stumbling · retreating · capitulating
maneuver, maneuvers, maneuvering, outmaneuver, maneuvered, maneuverable, outmaneuvered, outmaneuvers, outmanoeuvred