Usually means: Influencer who determines leadership selection.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. kingmaker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kingmaker: Merriam-Webster
  3. kingmaker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. kingmaker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. kingmaker: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Kingmaker, kingmaker: Vocabulary.com
  7. Kingmaker, kingmaker: Wordnik
  8. kingmaker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. kingmaker: Wiktionary
  10. kingmaker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. kingmaker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. kingmaker: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. kingmaker, the kingmaker: Dictionary.com
  14. Kingmaker (Wallace), Kingmaker (band), Kingmaker (board game), Kingmaker (disambiguation), Kingmaker (video game), Kingmaker, The Kingmaker (The Blacklist), The Kingmaker (audio drama), The Kingmaker (film), The Kingmaker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. The kingmaker, kingmaker: Rhymezone
  16. kingmaker: FreeDictionary.org
  17. kingmaker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. kingmaker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kingmaker: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kingmaker: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (politics) Someone who has strong influence over the choice of a leader.
noun:  (by extension, game theory) A player who is unable to win but powerful enough to decide which of the other viable players will eventually win.

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