gamesmanship
gamesmanship noun: the use of legal but unsporting tactics to gain an advantage over one’s opponent.
Noun
gamesmanship (countable and uncountable, plural gamesmanships)
- The use of legal but unsporting tactics to gain an advantage over one’s opponent.
- They kept the other team waiting on the field until the last possible moment – that was a clear case of gamesmanship.
- [Tina] Satter’s film, with its dramatization of the investigators’ formalized gamesmanship and [Reality] Winner’s strategic maneuvering, is fascinating but narrow, both regarding the protagonist and the law at large.2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2024
gamesmanship meaning in Tamil
gamesmanship in Tamil
- குள்ள நரித்தனம்
Forms of gamesmanship
| plural | gamesmanships |
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Origin of gamesmanship
From game + -s- + -manship or gamesman + -ship.
Words formed from gamesmanship
Questions about gamesmanship
- What does gamesmanship mean?
- Gamesmanship means the use of legal but unsporting tactics to gain an advantage over one’s opponent.
- What is gamesmanship in Tamil?
- Gamesmanship in Tamil is குள்ள நரித்தனம். See Gamesmanship meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is gamesmanship?
- Gamesmanship is a noun.
- What is the plural of gamesmanship?
- The plural of gamesmanship is gamesmanships.
Words near gamesmanship in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gamesmanship (page history and authors); gamesmanship (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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