JOCKEY


Meaning of JOCKEY in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

desk jockey

disc jockey

Jockey shorts

video jockey

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

top

Then why did he put her up at Ascot rather than one of the top jockeys ?

In part two: Horse race horror ... top woman jockey crushed in fall.

■ NOUN

disc

A Radio One disc jockey prattled in the background.

Ike, former radio disc jockey , actually kept his congregation awake on Sunday mornings.

It was the kind of station, and nobody tried to disguise it, where self-respecting disc jockeys were never found.

At first disc jockeys played the Kingsmen recording as a novelty, a kind of joke.

You knew the popularity of black disc jockeys , the power to sell various products.

Two disc jockeys would compete with each other in the clubs, taking turns to do their voice-over on the discs.

Bacon plays Billy Magic, a con man in the guise of a radio disc jockey .

disk

In 1995, the stock market smashed more records than a disgruntled disk jockey .

jump

The Committee also handed out a four-week suspension to Bruce Dowling, the jump jockey , for forging a doctor's signature.

Fred Winter was one of the most skilful and durable jump jockeys of the same period.

Allen Webb, the jump jockey , will be out of action for a week after injuring his neck while riding out.

Glover, 45, and a former top-notch jump jockey , took up training relatively late in his racing career.

With prize money declining, he laments that most of the time jump jockeys risk their necks for £150.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

jockey/manoeuvre/jostle for position

As they jockey for position , firms often adopt quite different strategies within the same industry.

He stayed in the shadows as he passed the House of Mirrors with its queue stretching outside, everyone jostling for position .

It's a spectacular sight, as the wildfowl jockey for position to grab the biggest beak or bill full of food.

Pigeons there on the parapet opposite, squabbling, jostling for position .

Satisfaction and horror jostle for position on his face.

Teenage boys, like young bulls in a herd, often jockey for position and want to try out their own strength.

The paper claims this represents a serious challenge to other Risc vendors jostling for position in the software arena.

They're jockeying for position the moment they see the light at the end of the tunnel.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A jockey may ride as many as 12 or 14 races a day.

He was champion jockey in 1872 with eighty-seven winners.

In 1995, the stock market smashed more records than a disgruntled disk jockey .

Not many other jockeys are so lucky.

One of the jockeys told me you lived along Boat Quay, so we asked around.

Then why did he put her up at Ascot rather than one of the top jockeys?

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

position

As they jockey for position , firms often adopt quite different strategies within the same industry.

They're jockeying for position the moment they see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Your close relationships inevitably involve one long process of jockeying for position .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Camera operators jockey the cameras around as instructed by the director.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Bribery is rife in jockeying for good positions on the dealing floor of some firms.

Competition, time-serving, jockeying for advantage, and avoiding blame were the new guiding principles.

In Congress, the same jockeying for political capital, of which Johnson and Romney were accused, was evident.

Members of important congressional committees are jockeying to see him.

The partisan jockeying illustrates the difficulties inherent in investigations into campaign fund raising.

They're jockeying for position the moment they see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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