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

As students at the famed University of Glasgow prepared to elect their Lord Rector,† no less a quipster than George Bernard Shaw drew his quill as an electioneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

He gave up all other employment to electioneer in behalf of the Whig candidate, and the defeat of his idol was a crushing blow from which he never recovered.

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs