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

Only British statesmen who do not electioneer are the members of the House of Lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

Think what an opportunity you would have while on the bench at Frankfort to electioneer as a candidate for Governor in 1927.

From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph