BRINKMANSHIP meaning: Pushing situations to the edge

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brinkmanship: Merriam-Webster
brinkmanship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
brinkmanship: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
brinkmanship: Collins English Dictionary
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Brinkmanship, brinkmanship: Wordnik
brinkmanship: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
brinkmanship: Wiktionary
brinkmanship: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
brinkmanship (brinksmanship): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
brinkmanship: Infoplease Dictionary
brinkmanship: Dictionary.com
Brinkmanship (Cold War), Brinkmanship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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brinkmanship: Mnemonic Dictionary
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brinkmanship: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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brinkmanship: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun: (chiefly politics) The pursuit of an advantage by appearing to be willing to take a matter to the brink (for example, by risking a dangerous policy) rather than to concede a point.

Opposite:

restraint, diplomacy, peacekeeping, de-escalation

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nuclear, political, such, diplomatic, dangerous, military, economic, american, financial, sexual, soviet

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