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

The election was for the local Diet, but Chancellor Heinrich Bruning of all Germany went out to electioneer against the Fascists.

From Time Magazine Archive

I made the people believe that I felt highly honored by my mission to electioneer for a prophet of God.

From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Lewis, Alfred Henry