Usually means: No possible moves; game drawn.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. stalemate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. stalemate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stalemate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stalemate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stalemate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stalemate, stalemate: Wordnik
  7. stalemate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. stalemate: Wiktionary
  9. stalemate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stalemate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stalemate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. stalemate: Dictionary.com
  13. stalemate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. stalemate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Stalemate (album), Stalemate (disambiguation), Stalemate (song), Stalemate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stalemate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stalemate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stalemate: Rhymezone
  19. stalemate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stalemate: Free Dictionary
  21. stalemate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. stalemate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. stalemate: Legal dictionary

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  1. stalemate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Conflict Resolution Glossary (No longer online)
  2. stalemate, stalemate: A Word A Day
  3. stalemate: Wordcraft Dictionary

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

(Note: See stalemated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chess) The state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw.
noun:  (by extension) Any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but involves no personal loss.
noun:  Any kind of match in which neither contestant laid claim to victory; a draw.
verb:  (chess, transitive) To bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To bring about a stalemate, in which no advance in an argument is achieved.

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