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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electioneer.

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Examples

  • I think I would view her much more favourably if she got rid of Penn, Wolfson and the rest of the amoral band of electioneers.

    Hillary: Dr. King's Legacy Is Us 2009

  • Certainly the SDLP can learn a much from FF party management and organization, and an agreement between them will ensure that SDLP electioneers can operate under the protection of a more powerful political institution, which should prevent any potential intimidation at election time by republican supporters.

    "THE SDLP’S CHALLENGE" CW 2007

  • The special algorithm that generates these dots is one that lets electioneers turn the dots of their half back into something they can read and count, but only if they have the key, and in fact can be arranged so that multiple keys are needed, they have to be applied in the right order, and each step is unreadable until the very end.

    Science has Solved All the Problems, Case 926 Billion « Tai-Chi Policy 2006

  • This means that multiple electioneers can all be given different keys each, and have no way of determining what they are working on, or how they would even need to alter the vote.

    Science has Solved All the Problems, Case 926 Billion « Tai-Chi Policy 2006

  • There was a handful of electioneers outside the fifty-foot limit.

    November 2004 2004

  • Burr compiled dossiers on every voter in town, and he kept an open house for Republican electioneers: “Refreshments were always on the table and mattresses for temporary repose in the rooms.”

    Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

  • Burr compiled dossiers on every voter in town, and he kept an open house for Republican electioneers: “Refreshments were always on the table and mattresses for temporary repose in the rooms.”

    Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

  • Ms de Haas cited as one example African National Congress electioneers being killed in the Inkatha Freedom Party stronghold before the elections.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • [42] "An electional system simply places power in the hands of the most skillful electioneers" (H.G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought, Chapman and Hall, London, 1904, p. 58).

    Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

  • The thought occurred to me, "I wonder if any one ever electioneers upon these streets for Jesus."

    Life of Lucius B. Compton, the mountain evangelist, or, From the depths of sin to the heights of holiness, 1903

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