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Manoeuvring, ... for position
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jockeying
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Word definitions for jockeying in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jockey \Jock"ey\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jockeyed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Jockeying .] `` To jostle by riding against one.'' --Johnson. To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer. To maneuver; to move ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of one who jockeys. vb. (present participle of jockey English)
Usage examples of jockeying.
The essay profiles the companies jockeying to speed up the annotation process through universal programs and accessible databases.
Jockeying in and out of heavy truck traffic, Spink briefed Ebby on the agent: he was a twenty-three-year-old from the westcentral Ukrainian city of Lutsk who had fought for the Germans under the turncoat Russian General Vlasov during the war.
The only real effort shown by the protestors was their jockeying attempts to get their faces in front of the many television cameras that whirred up at them from the sidewalk.
The jockeying was fierce, and Ranter had very nearly been thrown off into a patch of thistles.
Jockeying the location of his clubhouse entailed redrawing the entire plan and resubmitting it.
He was leaning forward, jockeying his horse, but still El Sangre hurled himself forward powerfully, smoothly.
The vast yellow field was fast being crushed, ground down, and erased in curling paths under the two hundred tanks jockeying through the stalks.
The bathing beauty was out there somewhere, jostling Fefre and chiliasm for space on the channels, jockeying her anomalously presented hips.
Once that was established--once each of them had made his attempt at directing things among them, thus clearly establishing relative ascendencies, then the government of Earth could proceed unhampered by further jockeying.
The boids in the middle shimmy along contentedly, and the ones on the fringes tag along anxiously jockeying for position, and the whole squadron hangs together, and wheels and swoops and maneuvers, with amazing grace.
One moment the two men were jockeying for posi tion—the next, Phow Ji was strolling away and Usu Cley was on his back trying to remember how to breathe.
One moment the two men were jockeying for positionthe next, Phow Ji was strolling away and Usu Cley was on his back trying to remember how to breathe.
I've been jockeying a desk for the past six months and bored to tears.
Heller, jockeying tractor-beam throttles and flying now on a curving course, began very neatly to place the wind devils around the yellow mist in a circle, a hungry, obscene chorus line of glittering colors shrieking out a mocking song of doom.
He didn't fiddle around with jockeying his ship into the new groove.