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Definition of Jockeying
1. n. The act or management of one who jockeys; trickery.
Definition of Jockeying
1. Verb. (present participle of jockey) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jockeying
1. jockey [v] - See also: jockey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jockeying
Literary usage of Jockeying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Iron-clad Ships: Their Qualities, Performances, and Cost. With Chapters by Edward James Reed (1869)
"On one occasion I observed, in addition to the "jockeying" below, the open—I may
even say the barefaced—resort to three obvious sources of falsification. ..."
2. Private Diary of Travels, Personal Services, and Public Events: During by Robert Thomas Wilson (1861)
"Jockeying is, I see, diplomatic fashion. If cabinets continue to hold military
councils, the camp will be corrupted—where honour and policy ' hitherto have ..."
3. Roads and Rails and Their Sequences, Physical and Moral by William Bridges Adams (1862)
"PATENTS—INVENTORS AND CONTRIVERS—WALTER HANCOCK—LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER —HOUSE
OF COMMONS—RAILWAY Jockeying—MAKING THE RAILWAY—LOCOMOTIVE ..."
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