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
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
They electioneer from a limousine, confounding tattered hecklers with the question: "Why shouldn't we be comfortable?"
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 Sam R. Watkins
