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US
/ˈɡæmbɪt/
]
[ UK /ɡˈæmbɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈæmbɪt/ ]
NOUN
- an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
- a maneuver in a game or conversation
- a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
How To Use gambit In A Sentence
- Bernard made no response to Tom's conversational gambits.
- True fans of the gambit should consider this a challenge.
- His idea of a brilliant conversational gambit is 'What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?'
- Hmm sounds like a perfect fit to me … … or Jean claude Van damme as Gambit HELLO????? Rumor: Matthew McConaughey Possibly Captain America - Blasphemy! « FirstShowing.net
- This gambit nevertheless breaks the ice, and they begin by discussing the merits of various brands of scotch.
- The devil's advocate gambit is extraordinary but certainly not uncommon since it strikes so regularly in the project rooms and boardrooms of corporate America.
- Assign your staff to build the sort of book on Russert's techniques, rhetorical gambits, and political obsessions that you'd want going into a debate with an opposing candidate.
- Yet the gambit may have backfired. Times, Sunday Times
- It's easy to recommend this book as essential material for those involved with this gambit on either side of the board.
- This book is geared toward the average player, but there is no discussion of gambit tries by white.
