electioneer

Example Sentences

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He embraced new words like electioneer and snack, repurposed old words like congress, and included slang like ain’t.

From Time • May 12, 2015

While employers can electioneer among their employees with near impunity under federal law, some state laws do place curbs or prohibitions on the practice.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2014

There were, just as certainly, some others: a reluctance to electioneer against his commander-in-chief, an unwillingness to part company with his old mentor George Marshall, a distaste for the roughhouse of campaign politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

His energetic young son James went out to electioneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then there suddenly came upon Amos James a recollection of the Cayces' grudge against Micajah Green, and of the fact that they had already actively bestirred themselves to electioneer against him.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles