Definition of "fair play" []

• Conformity to established rules. (noun)

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• "If an editor wishes really to be effective in holding back progress, he must protect himself with a camouflage of piety and philanthropy, he must have at his tongue's end the phrases of brotherhood and justice, he must be liberal and progressive, going a certain cautious distance with the reformers, indulging in carefully measured fair play -- giving a dime with one hand, while taking back a dollar with the other!"
• "He har bors his feeling of injustice but is as quick to demand fair play for his subordinates as for himself; perhaps there is something of the army politician in him."
• "His sense of fair play said she ought to have the co-command, funding the enterprise, but none of his colleagues would accord her that privilege."