electioneer
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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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
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
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
It was the resort for the itinerant politician, holding out the glad hand, who was to speak in the evening, and was with us to electioneer.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
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