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MUSICAL CHAIRS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rearrangement that has no practical effect or significance
Example:
shareholders don't want the company playing musical chairs with their investment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("musical chairs" is a kind of...):
rearrangement (changing an arrangement)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated
Synonyms:
going to Jerusalem; musical chairs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("musical chairs" is a kind of...):
child's game (a game enjoyed by children)
