Meaning of power play | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Tactics used to magnify power or influence.
2. A strategy or maneuver with a similar intention.
3. A situation where a team has a numerical advantage on the ice due to one or more penalties given to the opposing team.
4. A similar situation in other ball games, such as lacrosse, indoor soccer, rugby, and cricket.
5. A play used to move the stones to the side of the sheet.

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“Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call⟳ it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play⟳ consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate⟳ big free trade⟳ and investment agreements.”

“This has become⟳ a power-play between England, Fifa and the Qatari leadership. England’s players have⟳ been very good on these issues.”

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