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Definition: JOCKEYS |
JOCKEYSPlural1. Of Jockey |
Date "JOCKEYS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Crosswords: JOCKEYS |
| English words defined with "JOCKEYS": Jockeying, Jockeyism ♦ The fancy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "JOCKEYS": CLERK-OF-SCALES, colors custodian ♦ JOCKEY-ROOM CUSTODIAN ♦ RIDING-SILKS CUSTODIAN. (references) |
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Business | However, children under the age of 15 working as camel jockeys have still been observed. (references) | |
Children | Saudi Arabia | In general children play a minimal role in the workforce; however, there have been numerous reports that young boys of Saudi, Sudanese, and South Asian origin are used as jockeys in camel races. (references) |
Economic History | Uae | Despite tough federal laws prohibiting child labor, there remain concerns about the importation of children, some as young as two years of age, to serve as camel jockeys. (references) |
Human Rights | United Arab Emirates | Foreign NGO's have worked with embassies and the police and immigration authorities in providing shelter for underage camel jockeys, as well as assistance with their repatriation. (references) |
Political Economy | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Children under the age of 15 working as camel jockeys have still been observed. (references) |
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Newspaper articles have appeared in 2000 detailing instances of young children being smuggled into the UAE to work as camel jockeys. (references) | |
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | In 1993, the government prohibited the employment of children under the age of 15 as camel jockeys and of jockeys who do not weigh more than 99 pounds. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | However, the use of small children as camel jockeys is a problem. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | With the exception of camel jockeys, child labor is not tolerated. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | Trafficking in persons involves young boys used as camel jockeys, and women. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "JOCKEYS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.54% of the time. "JOCKEYS" is used about 218 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 99.54% | 217 | 20,530 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.46% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 218 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "JOCKEYS": disc-jockeys. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "JOCKEYS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 骑师 (jockey). (various references) | ||||
German | betrügt (cheats, deceives, defrauds, rooks, trepans). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 경마기수 (jockey). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ockeysjay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"JOCKEYS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jackey, Jacksey, Jochens, jocky, Joskiss. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "JOCKEYS" (pronounced jÄ"kēz) |
| 3 | -k ē z | bookies, cookies, donkeys, hierarchies, junkies, khakis, lackeys, monarchies, monkeys, psyches, rookies, talkies, techies, turkeys, whiskeys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-j-k-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: jockey. | |
-2 letters: cokes, cosey, jocks, joeys, jokes, jokey, yocks, yokes. | |
-3 letters: coke, cosy, coys, jock, joes, joey, joke, joky, joys, keys, okes, oyes, sock, soke, syce, syke, yock, yoke, yoks. | |
-4 letters: cos, coy, joe, joy, key, kos, oes, oke, ose, sec, sky, soy, yes, yok. | |
-5 letters: es, jo, oe, os, oy, so, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-j-k-o-s-y" | |
+4 letters: johnnycakes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 4F 43 4B 45 59 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--- --- -.-. -.- . -.--. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01001111 01000011 01001011 01000101 01011001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J O C K E Y S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 004F 0043 004B 0045 0059 0053 |
| 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)44493745395953 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, 중국 |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , deutsch, Deutsche, 독일 |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, 영국 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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