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kingmaking en · NOUN

Etymology

From king + making.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.
  2. (uncountable, usually) In games, a strategy or design where one player (often the losing one) essentially gets to pick who wins.
    • I think that V:TES is a multiplayer game, and multiplayer games have the kingmaking problem no matter much you try to tweak the rules. 2008 February 5, ben...@gmail.com, “New final ranking system is crap”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet):

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kingmaking en · VERB

Etymology

From king + making.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of kingmake
    form of kingmake

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