What is "gambits"

Usage examples of "gambits".

Again, these were high-risk gambits, which, if they did not succeed in the short term, carried long-term costs.

It is also worth remembering that Saddam's sense of threats to his regime include things such as the economic straits in which Iraq found itself in both 1990 and 1994--which prompted the invasion of Kuwait and the later threat to Kuwait, both of which were extremely risky gambits designed to stave off what he perceived to be dire threats, even though they hardly appeared as such to the rest of the world.

It is also worth remembering that Saddam's sense of threats to his regime include things such as the economic straits in which Iraq found itself in both 1990 and 1994—which prompted the invasion of Kuwait and the later threat to Kuwait, both of which were extremely risky gambits designed to stave off what he perceived to be dire threats, even though they hardly appeared as such to the rest of the world.

Aarens started out beside her but she didn't fancy him for company and she gave him grunts for answers to his conversational gambits until he got her message.