footwork
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈfutˌwɜrk/
:
habilidad
- His excellent footwork in the negotiation helped him avoid potential conflicts.
- fancy footwork
- fast footwork
- require footwork
Examples
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Change while you focus on footwork.
Blog text (13) -
Eugene completed all of the footwork necessary, from selecting the award recipients to ordering the plaques and certificates to bringing them to the banquet.
Academic text (1998) -
Hey, you lost a little of your footwork, huh, Harry?
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Someone else did the footwork.
Blog text (21) -
Your footwork is better than your pickup game, George.
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Like a good student, Stewart has done her homework, and like a good journalist, she has done her footwork.
Blog text (12) -
Readers did most of the footwork, leafing through pages and following up whenever they spotted something useful.
Blog text (29) -
You had to go after travel and research money, and then you had to get off your butt and put in the kind of footwork that left you with a hole in your shoe leather, a fresh set of bunions, and a new respect for your old worn-out slippers and chair.
Fiction book (1991) -
She demonstrated impressive footwork when navigating the challenges of the project.
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The coach praised his player's footwork for skillfully maneuvering through the competition.
How Skillful
37
4.2
302
4.9
4
4.6
69
4.1
3
3.3
18
7.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Footwork comes from the simple parts foot and work, and it gives a helpful image of 'working with your feet' to make clever moves. That's why footwork now means the skill or quick moves someone uses to handle a problem or avoid trouble.