0 present participle of bluff
1 to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you have knowledge that you do not really have, or that you are someone else:
Citizens then serve as the sanctioning mechanism for bluffing only if they become properly informed by open media.
However, the junta could still have been greatly constrained from bluffing by the ' audience costs ' engendered by its military constituency.
Since bluffing will be costly in democracies, bargaining becomes more transparent and more credible.
There is also a conceptual argument against bluffing threats we will consider when we discuss their rationality.
This assumption is that it is not possible to issue a bluffing threat.
Labor unions trust their allies, and union competition or monopoly provides signals of their strength and make probing and bluffing unnecessary.
Play involves learning what responses are effective in interacting with others, which conspecifics to challenge and which to defer to; learning about timing and surprise, fainting, and bluffing.
He advised me to beware of people bluffing.
