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kingmakings

kingmakings is the plural of kingmaking.

Meaning of kingmaking

Noun

kingmaking (usually uncountable, plural kingmakings)

  1. (usually) The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.
  2. (usually) In games, a strategy or design where one player (often the losing one) essentially gets to pick who wins.
    • I think that V:TES is a multiplayer game, and multiplayer games have the kingmaking problem no matter much you try to tweak the rules.2008 February 5, ben...@gmail.com, “New final ranking system is crap”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet)

Questions about kingmakings

What is kingmakings the plural of?
Kingmakings is the plural of kingmaking.

Words near kingmakings in the dictionary

  1. kingmake
  2. kingmaker
  3. kingmakers
  4. kingmakes
  5. kingmaking
  6. kingmakings
  7. Kingman
  8. Kingman County
  9. Kingman Reef
  10. Kingman's formula
  11. Kingmas

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