Usually means: Strategic manipulation within competitive rules.
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  1. gamesmanship: Merriam-Webster
  2. gamesmanship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gamesmanship: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gamesmanship: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gamesmanship: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gamesmanship, gamesmanship: Wordnik
  7. gamesmanship: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gamesmanship: Wiktionary
  9. gamesmanship: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gamesmanship: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gamesmanship: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gamesmanship: Dictionary.com
  13. Gamesmanship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. gamesmanship: Rhymezone
  15. gamesmanship: FreeDictionary.org
  16. gamesmanship: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. gamesmanship: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. gamesmanship: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gamesmanship: Backgammon

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noun:  The use of legal but unsporting tactics to gain an advantage over one’s opponent.

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