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musical chairs
1. uncountable noun
Musical chairs is a game that children play at parties. They run round a row of chairs while music plays and try to sit down on one when the music stops.
2. uncountable noun
If you describe the situation within a particular organization or area of activity as musical chairs, you are critical of the fact that people in that organization or area exchange jobs or positions very often.
[disapproval] It was musical chairs. Creative people would switch jobs just to get more money.
musical chairs in British English
noun (functioning as singular)
1.
a party game in which players walk around chairs while music is played, there being one fewer chair than players. Whenever the music stops, the player who fails to find a chair is eliminated
2.
any situation involving a number of people in a series of interrelated changes
musical chairs in American English
a game in which the players march to music around empty chairs (always one fewer than the number of players) and rush to sit down each time the music stops: the player with no seat is eliminated in each round
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