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US
/ɪˌɫɛkʃəˈnɪɹ/
]
[ UK /ɪlˈɛkʃənˈiə/ ]
[ UK /ɪlˈɛkʃənˈiə/ ]
VERB
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work actively for a political candidate or a party
My neighbors are busy electioneering during the Presidential election campaign
How To Use electioneer In A Sentence
- What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket"). How to Sound Presidential
- As an electioneerer, I can get away with any of 'em. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
- But some experts were quick to accuse the chancellor of shameless electioneering.
- Mr.W. G. Harding -- unless he came to Zenith and electioneered for Babbitt
- The men electioneered and handed cards to thought my name was Jazz. The Iron Puddler
- But council officials have told him to remove them after receiving a complaint about using stalls for electioneering.
- Critics have dismissed his visit to a shelter for the homeless as an obvious piece of electioneering.
- Along the harbor in Beaufort, North Carolina, this electioneer also paddled ‘a small row boat from vessel to vessel’ to collect the votes, though it was ‘very rough and difficult - if not dangerous - to get about as I have to do.’
- As only eight fellows could be given places on the regular crew in the shell, and Buck's five cronies were all eager to be ranked as members, they electioneered for him most industriously. Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School
- ‘Cocktail,’ the paper stated, ‘is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters - it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that if fuddles the head.’