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Definitions: JOCKEYING |
JOCKEYINGNoun1. The act or management of one who jockeys; trickery. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Jockey |
Date "JOCKEYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I mean I'm an aryan, I don't want your camel jockeying hands inside my mouth. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 'Columbia' and 'Shamrock II': Jockeying and Starting (1901) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Indonesia | The former President changed his economic advisors frequently, and power jockeying among the parties, ministries, legislature, central bank, and other institutions further complicated investors' assessments of Indonesia's political outlook. (references) |
Fiji | After a period of continued jockeying and negotiation, Rabuka staged a second coup on September 25, 1987. The military government revoked the constitution and declared Fiji a republic on October 10. This action, coupled with protests by the Government of India, led to Fiji's expulsion from the Commonwealth and official nonrecognition of the Rabuka regime from foreign governments, including Australia and New Zealand. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | According to a newspaper report published in May, a 6-year old Pakistani boy who had been trafficked to the country along with his family died of severe head injuries allegedly caused by "a fall"--an excuse sometimes given to hospital personnel when injuries are sustained from camel jockeying. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "JOCKEYING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "JOCKEYING" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "JOCKEYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | маневри (engineering, field day, maneuvers, manoeuvres), жокейство, измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist). (various references) | ||||
French | manigance politique (political jockeying). (various references) | ||||
German | betrügend (cheatingly, deceiving, defrauding, rooking, swindling, trepanning). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ockeyingjay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"JOCKEYING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jockeyings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "JOCKEYING" (pronounced jÄ"kēing) |
| 4 | -k ē i ng | monkeying. |
| 3 | -ē i ng | accompanying, bullying, burying, carrying, copying, cozying, currying, dairying, dizzying, embodying, emptying, ferrying, hurrying, jollying, journeying, levying, lobbying, marrying, muddying, partying, photocopying, pitying, quarrying, rallying, readying, remarrying, remedying, scurrying, studying, tallying, taxiing, varying, wearying, worrying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-j-k-n-o-y" | |
-2 letters: yocking. | |
-3 letters: coigne, coking, coying, jingko, jockey, joking, joying, keying, yoking. | |
-4 letters: coign, coney, conge, conky, eikon, eking, enjoy, enoki, eying, gecko, genic, incog, jingo, jokey, koine, yince, yogic, yogin, yonic. | |
-5 letters: cine, cion, coin, coke, cone, coni, conk, cony, geck, gien, gink, gone, icky, icon, ikon, inky, jeon, jink, jock, joey, join, joke. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 4F 43 4B 45 59 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--- --- -.-. -.- . -.--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01001111 01000011 01001011 01000101 01011001 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J O C K E Y I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 004F 0043 004B 0045 0059 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)444937453959434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, bulgare |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | френски език, френски, français, französisch |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, englisch |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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