Usually means: Strategic move with initial sacrifice.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. gambit: Merriam-Webster
  2. gambit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gambit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gambit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gambit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gambit, gambit: Wordnik
  7. gambit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gambit: Wiktionary
  9. gambit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gambit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gambit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gambit, gambit: Dictionary.com
  13. gambit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gambit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gambit (British game show), Gambit (Scheme implementation), Gambit (chess), Gambit (comics), Gambit (disambiguation), Gambit (game show), Gambit (newspaper), Gambit (novel), Gambit (satellite), Gambit (scheme implementation), Gambit (unproduced film), Gambit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gambit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gambit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gambit: Rhymezone
  19. Gambit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gambit: FreeDictionary.org
  21. gambit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. gambit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. gambit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. gambit: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gambit: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. gambit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. GAMBIT: Acronym Finder
  2. gambit, gambit: A Word A Day
  3. gambit: Idioms
  4. gambit: Wordcraft Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gambit: Chess Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gambit)

▸ noun:  (chess) An opening in chess in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
▸ noun:  Any ploy or stratagem.
▸ noun:  A remark intended to open a conversation.
▸ verb:  (chess, transitive) To sacrifice (a pawn or minor piece) to gain an advantage.

Similar:
ploy, stratagem, Benko Gambit, countergambit, attraction, promotion, exchange, odds, Staunton Gambit, Open Game, more...

Opposite:
blunder

Phrases:
opening gambit, evans gambit, counter gambit, Muzio Gambit, Queen's Gambit Declined, more...

Adjectives:
opening, conversational, political, last, whole, old, favorite, desperate, standard, usual, next

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Similar:
ploy, stratagem, Benko Gambit, countergambit, attraction, promotion, exchange, odds, Staunton Gambit, Open Game, more...

Opposite:
blunder

Phrases:
opening gambit, evans gambit, counter gambit, Muzio Gambit, Queen's Gambit Declined, Queen's Gambit, Tennison Gambit, Operation Acid Gambit, Death's Gambit, Gambit Esports, Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit, more...

Adjectives:
opening, conversational, political, last, whole, old, favorite, desperate, standard, usual, next

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     ruby,     maroon, more...



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