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

His energetic young son James went out to electioneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I never felt it was good taste to go out and electioneer for my husband," she wrote.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, as the war was over now, our captains, colonels and generals were not "hard on the boys;" in fact, had begun to electioneer a little for the Legislature and for Congress.

From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Watkins, Sam R.