Tra từ jockey - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

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.

jockey

I. jock‧ey¹ /ˈdʒɒki $ ˈdʒɑːki/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1500-1600; Origin : Jockey, Scottish male name, from John]
someone who rides horses in races

II. jockey² verb [INTRANSITIVE]
to compete strongly to get into the best position or situation, or to get the most power
jockey for
　 ▪ photographers jockeying for position at the bar
　 ▪ After the war, rival politicians began to jockey for power.