jockey• A jockey may ride as many as 12 or 14 races a day.• He was championjockey in 1872 with eighty-seven winners.• In 1995, the stockmarketsmashed more records than a disgruntled diskjockey.• Not many other jockeys are so lucky.• One of the jockeys told me you lived along BoatQuay, so we asked around.• Then why did he put her up at Ascot rather than one of the top jockeys?
jockey2 verb [intransitiveI]
MOVE/CHANGE POSITIONto compete strongly to get into the best position or situation, or to get the most power 〔为获得最佳位置、最有利形势或最大权力而〕激烈竞争
jockey for
photographers jockeying for position at the bar
在酒吧中争夺最佳位置的摄影师们
After the war, rival politicians began to jockey for power.
jockeying for position• Your close relationships inevitably involve one long process of jockeying for position.• With us all jockeying for position in the statusstakes, we can't afford for this to happen.• Two airlines are jockeying for position in the trans-Atlantic market.• They're jockeying for position the moment they see the light at the end of the tunnel.• Even before the formalresignationannouncements, the jockeying for position within the ShadowCabinet was well under way last night.