kingmaking

The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.

Noun

  1. The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.
  2. In games, a strategy or design where one player (often the losing one) essentially gets to pick who wins.
    • I think that V:TES is a multiplayer game, and multiplayer games have the kingmaking problem no matter much you try to tweak the rules. - 2008 February 5, [email protected], “New final ranking system is crap”, in...

Origin

From king + making.

Forms

kingmakings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of kingmake

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