0 present participle of kowtow
1 to show too much respect to someone in authority, always doing what you are told and changing what you do in order to please them
Most importantly, this would be an admission of failure which would amount to kowtowing to the financial sector.
It is not kowtowing to any momentary spasm.
It is a dependency economy kowtowing to successive governments for hand-outs.
However, we have found that his policy allows him to bully and lecture the weak while kowtowing obsequiously to the strong.
He made it known that he wouldn't forgive any kowtowing.
I am not entitled to all this kowtowing.
Kowtowing is a powerful gesture reserved mainly for honoring the dead or offering deep respect at a temple.
Kowtowing, or kneeling and bowing so deeply that ones forehead is touching the floor, is practiced during worship at temples.
