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Welcome to another amazing installment of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Are you ready to stretch your brain by expanding your vocabulary? If so, then let's get started with the Word of the Week:

Blinkmanship: [noun] the art of diplomatic negotiations which cedes no ground until the other side backs down from a position. -- "Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang", Grant Barrett, Ed., Oxford University Press, 2004.

Example: In these trying economic times, Harry played an extremely risky game of blinkmanship when he told his boss that he would quit effective immediately if he was not granted an exception to the current wage freeze in effect at the company.