electioneer
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Origin of electioneer
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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
They electioneer from a limousine, confounding tattered hecklers with the question: "Why shouldn't we be comfortable?"
From Time Magazine Archive
There were, just as certainly, some others: a reluctance to electioneer against his commander-in-chief, an unwillingness to part company with his old mentor George Marshall, a distaste for the roughhouse of campaign politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
He gave up all other employment to electioneer in behalf of the Whig candidate, and the defeat of his idol was a crushing blow from which he never recovered.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs
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