0 past simple and past participle of jockey
1 to attempt to get power or get into a better position than other people using any methods you can:
Several jockeyed for position; everyone contributed to both texts.
Sub-divisional chiefs jockeyed to be divisional chiefs.
Divisional chiefs, anxious to secure and aggrandize their powers, created new hierarchies, reinvented rituals of union and jockeyed for representation on councils and tribunals.
However, the evidence reveals that local elites and rural communities jockeyed for respect and political entitlement through the manipulation of the symbolic capital of the conqueror.
Usually when that happens we are being jockeyed into a position in which we should not find ourselves.
That is different from being jockeyed into the position of saying what we would do at the moment.
He should not be put there and jockeyed into office by particular sections of the organisation.
As a matter of fact we have been driven, or jockeyed into a fight.
