Jockey - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈdʒɑːkɪ|  American pronunciation of the word jockey
Brit.  |ˈdʒɒkɪ|  British pronunciation of the word jockey

noun

- someone employed to ride horses in horse races
- an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus
he's a truck jockey
a computer jockey
a disc jockey

verb

- defeat someone through trickery or deceit (syn: cheat, chicane, chouse, screw, shaft)
- compete (for an advantage or a position)
- ride a racehorse as a professional jockey

Extra examples

There was a lot of political jockeying at the fund-raiser.

The driver carefully jockeyed the truck into a narrow space in the crowded parking lot.

He was jockeyed out of the job.

After the war, rival politicians began to jockey for power.

The jockey whipped his horse.

Firms adopt different strategies as they jockey for position.

As a jockey he rode 10 winners.

...the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse...

The disc jockey, or DJ, who provides the vocal connection between records.

Fred Winter is unquestionably the jockey to follow

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: jockey
he/she/it: jockeys
present participle: jockeying
past tense: jockeyed
past participle: jockeyed
noun
singular: jockey
plural: jockeys
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