jockey for position

verb

To try to get one's horse into a better position during a horse race.

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Meanings

verbjockey for position (third-person singular simple present jockeys for position, present participle jockeying for position, simple past and past participle jockeyed for position)

present singular third person jockeys for position · participle present jockeying for position · participle past jockeyed for position · past jockeyed for position

  1. To try to get one's horse into a better position during a horse race.
  2. figurativelyTo try to come out ahead in a competition for something specific or put oneself in a more favourable position generally.
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Chicago

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