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What does outflank mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word outflank? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To maneuver around and behind the flank of (an opposing force).
  2. (transitive) To gain a tactical advantage over (a competitor, for example).
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But if you don't have the military forces to win, you've got to outflank them, with strategic defense.
Perhaps this is how Demetrius's left found it so easy to outflank the Ptolemaic right.
His squadron was now racing back through the Dominion battle group to engage the Alliance fleet moving to outflank.
The most acute risk comes from those who outflank radicals with deeper radicalism.
His call to buy more shares and move away from residential property has been labelled an attempt to outflank political opponents on the right.
If the group is staggered or further spread out so you can't outflank them to the side, you have to become especially evasive.

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