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

jock itch
jock strap
jock straps
jocked
jockette
jockettes
jockey
jockey cap
jockey club
jockey for position
jockey strap
jockey straps
jockeyed
jockeyed for position
jockeying
jockeying for position
jockeyish
jockeyism
jockeys
jockeys for position
jockeyship
jockeyships
jocking
jockish
jocklike
jockney
jockneys
jocko
jockocracies

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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