in-fighting

1. 1.

   conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders)

   Broaderfight
2. 2.

   boxing at close quarters

   Broaderboxing

Questions about in-fighting

What does in-fighting mean?

in-fighting means "conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in in-fighting?

in-fighting has 3 syllables: in--figh-ting. The stress falls on "in-".

Is in-fighting a common word?

in-fighting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.