Today’s “Word of the Day” is brinkmanship and it is a noun meaning “the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous results by engaging in a dangerous issue or event to the edge of safety, especially in politics, by pushing dangerous events”.
Example Sentence: This week, the Kremlin upped the ante still further, requesting an “urgent” response from Washington and Nato to its demands. Faced with a game of brinkmanship that is escalating week by week, the west has little option but to demonstrate a desire to keep talking and make it clear to Mr Putin that a heavy price in sanctions will be paid in the event of a Russian military incursion.
This word is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on Russia’s Nato demands: upping the ante and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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