0 a person whose job is riding horses in races: --
a champion jockey
1 a person whose job involves the use of a particular device, vehicle, object, etc., or who is very interested in a particular thing: --
2 to attempt to get power or get into a better position than other people using any methods you can: --
3 a person whose job is riding horses in races --
4 to attempt to obtain power or get into a more advantageous position than other people by using any methods you can: --
They fear that such a step would mean more jockeying for position and a further moving about of personnel.
You might just as well call together a committee of bookies and jockeys to abolish horse-racing.
There is a lot of jockeying for position on the question of abolition of tests.
Authorities of the same rank may jockey among themselves for greater power or influence.
In these ways, both players and teams jockey to improve their chances of making mutually satisfactory - and not random - arrangements.
As they jockey for position, firms often adopt quite different strategies within the same industry.
The position of balance was found by sliding the jockey along the potentiometer wire until the galvanometer gave no deflection when the key was depressed.
When the race/competition starts you jockey for position ('try to get into a more powerful or advantageous situation', such as the inside track).
