Meaning of "lifemanship" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF LIFEMANSHIP

lifemanship  [ˈlaɪfmənˌʃɪp]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LIFEMANSHIP

Lifemanship is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LIFEMANSHIP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Stephen Potter

Stephen Meredith Potter was a British author best known for his mocking self-help books and their film and television derivatives. After leaving school in the last months of the First World War he was commissioned as a junior officer in the British army, but by the time he had completed his training the war was over and he was demobilised. He then studied English at Oxford, and after some false starts he spent his early working life as an academic, lecturing in English literature at Birkbeck College, part of the University of London, during which time he published several works on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Finding his income inadequate to support himself and his family, he left the university and took up a post producing and writing for the BBC. He remained with the BBC until after the Second World War, when he became a freelance writer, and remained so for the rest of his life. His series of humorous books on how to secure an unfair advantage began in 1947 with Gamesmanship, purporting to show how poor players can beat better ones by subtle psychological ploys. This sold prodigiously and led to a series of sequels covering other aspects of life.

Definition of lifemanship in the English dictionary

The definition of lifemanship in the dictionary is the art or skill of achieving success or acquiring an advantage over others.

TRANSLATION OF LIFEMANSHIP

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIFEMANSHIP»

Discover the use of lifemanship in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lifemanship and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Lifemanship: Some Notes on Lifemanship with a Summary of ...

What does Lifemanship mean?

Stephen Potter, 2005

Expert Lifemanship: Mastering the Art of Living

The grand theme of living life to the full is explored in the words of Warren Wiersbe, punctuated by the stunning nature photography of Ken Jenkins.

Warren W. Wiersbe, 2008

OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word

15. The. Lifemanship. OK. considering the peculiar uses to which the english have put OK, it is perhaps not so surprising that a British wag was the first to hit upon a way to use OK in the service of expounding a way of life—a philosophy, if you ...

Allan Metcalf, 2010

Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John ...

These programs were also very beneficial to Potter himself, enabling him to enlarge the concept of gamesmanship into the wider forms of one-upmanship and lifemanship. A sequel to Gamesmanship, Some Notes on Lifemanship, was ...

Steven H. Gale, 1996

Chasing Shadows

5. LIFEMANSHIP. There is aYiddish sayingwhich originally referred to Ma ́ram- aros, and which expresses painfully and clearly the condition of this area during much of its history. 'Ten measures of poverty were given to the world. Nine were ...

Hugo Gryn, Naomi Gryn, 2000

Nutters with Putters

Appendix III Requirements Required reading Stephen Potter (1900-1969) The Theory & Practice of Gamesmanship or The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating (1947) Some Notes On Lifemanship or The Art of Getting Away With It ...

Tim 'Ace Man' Davies & John 'Big Top' Ted McIver, 2008

Hollywood's Miracles of Entertainment

Director: ROBERT HAMER. Screenplay: Patricia Moyes and Hal E. Chester. Based on the 1947 books Lifemanship, One-Upmanship and Gamesmanship by Stephen Potter. Original screen adaptation: Peter Ustinov. Photography: Erwin Hillier ...

John Howard Reid, 2005

Erving Goffman

... 110, 143, 299 Lewis, D.K. 370. ®lifemanship ̄. 4 linguistics 12, 298, 311, 318¥ 19 localisation 372, 375¥6 Locke, John19,49,

Tom Burns, 2002

One-Upmanship

Being Some Account Of The Activities And Teaching Of The Lifemanship Correspondence College Of One-Upness And Gameslifemastery.

Stephen Potter, 2013

Getting away with it: Short cuts to the things you don't ...

Students at the Yeovil College of Lifemanship were untroubled by the complexities of email, texting, office politics, flexiworking or fake tans but it's nice to think that if they were to find themselves confronted by the modern world then Getting ...

Steve Shipside, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIFEMANSHIP»

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The 10 best tennis moments in culture

The experience is so lowering that Palfrey admits himself to Dr Potter's School of Lifemanship before eventually seeking a rematch with ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»

The top 10 books about style

The third of Potter's peerless quartet, the others being Gamesmanship, Lifemanship and Supermanship – all very well conflated in the Alastair ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»

Organizer of concert series Judahfest dies

Works at Natural Lifemanship. Judah's friends have created a fund to help with funeral expenses. If you are searching for a way to support his ... «KRIS Corpus Christi News, Feb 15»

Alan Bennett knows how to shock a man

Stephen Potter's Some Notes on Lifemanship, published in 1950, observes how utterly "un-New Statesman-like" it was – the NS was ... «The Independent, May 14»

Kindermusik: Program gets kids off on the right note

The emphasis is on lifemanship rather than showmanship. “Before you can perform music, you have to love music. Kindermusik opens the door ... «Asheboro Courier Tribune, Jan 14»

Horse Sense: Helping horses, helping people

Horse Sense draws extensively from Parelli Natural Horse Training and Natural Lifemanship Trauma Focused Equine Assisted Therapy ... «Mountain Xpress, Jan 14»

School for Scoundrels

When charming April Smith is stolen away from him, Henry takes drastic action and enrols in the College of Lifemanship, run by Mr Potter, where he can learn to ... «BBC News, Jul 13»

One-upmanship 2012

The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship: Or the Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating dealt with sports. Lifemanship adapted this ... «Financial Times, Aug 12»

DEAD END KID DEAD

The comedy “School for Scoundrels” (1960) with Terry-Thomas and Alistair Sim is about a failure who enrolls at the “School of Lifemanship”, ... «The National Enquirer, Apr 12»

Hal Chester

The main character, Palfrey (Carmichael), is a failure in sport and love who enrols at the “School of Lifemanship”, where he is taught how to win ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 12»