"game the system" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "games the system",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gaming the system",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gamed the system",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gamed the system",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "game the system (third-person singular simple present games the system, present participle gaming the system, simple past and past participle gamed the system)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 August 11, Michael Slezak, “Electricity price spikes caused by energy companies 'gaming' the system, report finds”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Huge spikes in wholesale electricity prices in South Australia have been a result of energy companies “gaming” the system and exploiting their unusual market power to charge “monopoly rents”, according to an in-depth report by the Melbourne Energy Institute.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 March 1, Prem Sikka, “Philip Green has shown the rich can game the system. We need to stop another BHS”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "The moral appears to be that wealthy individuals can game the system, and if the pressure becomes unbearable they can make a settlement – otherwise off they go.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 15, Mattha Busby, quoting Matt Hancock, “UK families having to 'hack' system to get coronavirus test”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "It’s incumbent on all of us to take a responsible approach and tell our constituents that tests are available in large numbers and the average distance travelled is 5.8 miles … And people should take this seriously and not game the system.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order to instead manipulate the system for a desired outcome."
      ],
      "id": "en-game_the_system-en-verb-xV6qz69q",
      "links": [
        [
          "rule",
          "rule"
        ],
        [
          "procedure",
          "procedure"
        ],
        [
          "protect",
          "protect"
        ],
        [
          "manipulate",
          "manipulate"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "play the system"
        },
        {
          "word": "beat the system"
        },
        {
          "word": "work the system"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "game the system"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "games the system",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gaming the system",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gamed the system",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gamed the system",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "game the system (third-person singular simple present games the system, present participle gaming the system, simple past and past participle gamed the system)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 August 11, Michael Slezak, “Electricity price spikes caused by energy companies 'gaming' the system, report finds”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Huge spikes in wholesale electricity prices in South Australia have been a result of energy companies “gaming” the system and exploiting their unusual market power to charge “monopoly rents”, according to an in-depth report by the Melbourne Energy Institute.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 March 1, Prem Sikka, “Philip Green has shown the rich can game the system. We need to stop another BHS”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "The moral appears to be that wealthy individuals can game the system, and if the pressure becomes unbearable they can make a settlement – otherwise off they go.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 15, Mattha Busby, quoting Matt Hancock, “UK families having to 'hack' system to get coronavirus test”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "It’s incumbent on all of us to take a responsible approach and tell our constituents that tests are available in large numbers and the average distance travelled is 5.8 miles … And people should take this seriously and not game the system.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order to instead manipulate the system for a desired outcome."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rule",
          "rule"
        ],
        [
          "procedure",
          "procedure"
        ],
        [
          "protect",
          "protect"
        ],
        [
          "manipulate",
          "manipulate"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "play the system"
        },
        {
          "word": "beat the system"
        },
        {
          "word": "work the system"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "game the system"
}