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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
infighting
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite the policy agreements, the infighting over the succession to both Mitterrand and Mauroy had not at that point been resolved.
▪ Exhausted by infighting, humiliated by his foes, he seemed on the verge of losing his struggle with parliament.
▪ Few disciples followed him, his purist rigour being unsuited to compromise or the political infighting which wracked the sectarian Left.
▪ Large chunks of M16 fell to it, and the infighting between departments grew distinctly worse.
▪ The bargaining processes within the Defence commodity market are often described in the media and in Parliament as vicious inter-Service infighting.
▪ This had provoked Democratic infighting in the Senate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
infighting

infighting \infighting\ n. [in- + fighting.]

  1. contention among members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders), sometimes of a bitter, intense, or prolonged character.

    Note: [Such infighting may lead to factionalism.] PJC]

  2. fighting, such as boxing, at close quarters.

  3. rough-and-tumble, free-for-all fighting.

Wiktionary
infighting

n. Fighting or quarreling among the members of a single group or side. vb. (present participle of infight English)

Wikipedia
Infighting (martial arts)

Infighting is the name given to certain martial art techniques used while in close proximity to the opponent. The Chinese martial art of Wing Chun specializes in infighting.

Infighting

Infighting may refer to:

  • Intragroup conflict, conflict within the boundaries of a group
  • Infighting (martial arts), martial arts techniques used while in close proximity to the opponent.

Usage examples of "infighting".

By 1994, the Soviets were long gone from Afghanistan and the victorious Mujahedin had fallen to infighting.

Snide infighting, phrasemaking, and pantheon building are the symptoms of their critical affliction.

The Anayzah, the Shammar, and the Jubur tribes of the western desert were beset by violent infighting.

Royal Stables, which led into a discussion of the cloning department and its relationship to the Palace cloning department, followed by a chat about Palace politics and the infighting between Rubinstein and Ismail.

NASA was bad at it anyhow—long-range plans always got bogged down in infighting between the centers—and Webb believed that long-term plans were just hostages to fortune, a distraction for budget authorizers and NASA managers.

She meant the Dethe Fleet to be paralyzed with our infighting right now.

There was this to be said about Rome's infighting: it weeded out the dullards.

You'd add top-heaviness to the administrative sector, inject a battalion-worth of unnecessary political maneuvering and infighting, and generally use up man-hours for no net gain.

A colony full of men and women with fragile egos and unstemmable ambition, all of them trained in vicious political infighting at the most dangerous and terrible schools of bureaucratic combat in the Empire—the universities.

A colony full of men and women with fragile egos and unstemmable ambition, all of them trained in vicious political infighting at the most dangerous and terrible schools of bureaucratic combat in the Empire-- the universities.

A colony full of men and women with fragile egos and unstemmable ambition, all of them trained in vicious political infighting at the most dangerous and terrible schools of bureaucratic combat in the Empire--the universities.

She vastly preferred the Navy, where the chain of command was at least generally clear, whatever infighting went on between factions and power groups.