Meaning

3 senses

  1. An opening in chess in which material is sacrificed to gain an advantage.

    Her clever gambit gave her an advantage.

    Gambit

    гамби́тgambít

    an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker

  2. Any ploy or stratagem.

    Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit.

    гамби́тgambít, уло́вкаulóvka

  3. A remark intended to open a conversation.

    a maneuver in a game or conversation

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Masterful gambit, sir.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
chess move:
ploy:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
chess move:

Origin

Borrowed from Italian gambetto (“act of tripping; gambit”), from gamba (“leg”) + -etto (di

Borrowed from Italian gambetto (“act of tripping; gambit”), from gamba (“leg”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). First attested in 1656.

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Forms

plural: gambits
Singulargambit
Pluralgambits

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker:ploy
  • a maneuver in a game or conversation:ploystratagem

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcountergambit

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
galoregalvanizegamagamblegamblergameA1

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