Usually means: Strategic front-runner masking actual intent.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word stalking-horse:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. stalking-horse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. stalking-horse, stalking-horse: Collins English Dictionary
  3. stalking-horse: Vocabulary.com
  4. stalking-horse: Wordnik
  5. stalking-horse: Wiktionary
  6. stalking-horse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. stalking-horse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. stalking-horse: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. stalking-horse: Dictionary.com
  10. Stalking-horse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. stalking-horse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. stalking-horse: Rhymezone
  13. Stalking-horse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. stalking-horse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. Stalking-horse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. stalking-horse: FreeDictionary.org
  17. stalking-horse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. stalking-horse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stalking-horse: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stalking-horse: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stalking-horse: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Stalking-horse)

noun:  Alternative form of stalking horse [(dated, hunting) A horse used as cover by a hunter stalking game.]

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