gambit
noun [C] (CLEVER ACTION) /ˈɡæm.bɪt/Definition
› a clever action in a game or other situation that is intended to achieve an advantage and usually involves taking a risk: Her clever opening gambit gave her an early advantage. Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit.Acting and actsDealing with things or people › specialized a way of beginning a game of chess, in which you intentionally lose a pawn (= game piece) in order to win some other form of advantage laterChess
(Definition of gambit noun (CLEVER ACTION) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- (your) every move idiom
- -ant suffix
- -ation suffix
- -er suffix (PERFORMER)
- act noun (THING DONE)
- act verb (BEHAVE)
- act verb (DO SOMETHING)
- act/do sth on your own responsibility idiom
- agency noun (ACTIONS)
- be up to sth idiom
- beat verb (DEFEAT)
- execution noun (ACTION)
- exploit noun
- fait accompli noun
- fling yourself into sth phrasal verb
- operation noun (WORK)
- put your money where your mouth is idiom
- step noun (STAGE)
- stop the rot idiom
- up to preposition (DOING)
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