Or milking it, to use a similar term that’s more easily understandable.
All right, no more ado, here are media examples of people who use their position to game the system instead of following the rules fair and square:
1. Interrogated this year by U.S. investigators in his Iraq prison cell about prewar U.N. inspections, Tariq Aziz quoted Saddam Hussein as having told his manipulative Higher Committee in 2002, “These people are playing a game with us — we’ll play a game with them.”
That technique is known in the American vernacular as gaming the system. This summer, President Bush said of Saddam Hussein, “Intelligence clearly says that he was gaming the system.” In an October news conference, the president used the phrase redundantly: “The Duelfer report showed that Saddam was systematically gaming the system, using the U.N. oil-for-food program to try to influence countries ... to undermine sanctions.”
Sarah Green, in e-mail-land, writes: “Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky accused his opponent, a doctor, of gaming the medical system. Environmentalists accused utility companies of getting away with lax water-safety standards — again by gaming the system. What I want to know is, what is this game, and will they let me play?”
You don’t want to play this ancient game. In Standard English, the verb rooted in the Teutonic gamen became to game and had the innocent meaning of “to play, to amuse.” As a noun, that meaning still holds; but as a verb and its participle, gaming, along with the related gambling, the word gained a rakish connotation.
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