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outflank

verb

Etymology

From out- + flank.

  1. derived from *kleng-✻ — “to bend”
  2. derived from *hlankaz✻ — “flexible, sleek, bendsome”
  3. derived from *hlanku✻ — “bend, curve, hip, flank”
  4. derived from *hlanca✻
  5. derived from flanc
  6. inherited from flanc — “flank”
  7. inherited from flanc
  8. formed as outflank — “out- + flank”

Definitions

  1. To maneuver around and behind the flank of (an opposing force).

  2. To gain a tactical advantage over (a competitor, for example).

    • Unscrupulous members offered special discounts, illegal rebates, and unauthorized underquotations to outflank their conference partners, and blamed their agents or 'invented' competition to justify these tactics.

The neighborhood

Derived

outflanker

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