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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who plays a sport or game, especially skillfully or avidly.
  • noun One who practices gamesmanship.

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  • noun One who engages in gamesmanship.

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Examples

  • "Of all the problems which face the golf gamesman," Mr. Potter wrote, "the problem of pure good play is the most difficult to fight."

    The Art of Gamesmanship 2009

  • The gamesman emerged in the twentieth century when social character became more self-affirmative and the spirit more meritocratic.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • The whole thing is a bunch of political spin from a master political gamesman who claims to be running against political gamesmanship.

    Sound Politics: Fallout of the McGavick DUI Story is More Evidence Civility Theme Works 2006

  • Fair but detached, the gamesman has welcomed the era of rights and equal opportunity as both a fair and an efficient climate for moving the ‘best’ to the ‘top’ Maccoby, 1979, p.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • The second ideal leader, the empire builder, the lionlike jungle fighter with patriarchal power, gave way to the third ideal, the gamesman.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • Maccoby (1979) posited three ideal types of leaders of business and industry in a longer view of production in the United States in the past 200 years: (1) craftsman, (2) jungle fighter, and (3) gamesman.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • Dominique's Comaneci connection is played up and down by Karolyi, at 54, gymnastics 'consummate gamesman.

    On The Beam 2008

  • The gamesman enjoys challenges and is daring, willing to innovate and to take risks Maccoby, 1976.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • Fair but detached, the gamesman has welcomed the era of rights and equal opportunity as both a fair and an efficient climate for moving the ‘best’ to the ‘top’ Maccoby, 1979, p.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • With a boyish, informal style, … the gamesman controls subordinates by persuasion, enthusiasm, and seduction rather than heavy and humiliating commands.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

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