0 present participle of jockey
1 to attempt to get power or get into a better position than other people using any methods you can:
A familiar notion, again, is that a national political system can be stimulated by the permanent jockeying for position among party elites.
On the arrival of new guests, a general jockeying and rearrangement of seating took place in accordance with age precedence.
Not surprisingly ci-devant noble families started jockeying for positions in exactly the way that they had before 1789, by emphasizing their tradition of service.
Equilibrium strategies and the value of information in a two line queuing system with threshold jockeying.
Moreover, when a leadership remains unchanged for many years, disagreements among the individual leaders become a jockeying for position rather than a real political confrontation.
Political decision makers themselves take this jockeying into account, and design their policies accordingly.
But other labor organizations were also jockeying for this position.
Unfortunately, the opening declaration was indicative of the kind of political jockeying for position that was to take place at the conference.
