[
US
/ɪˌɫɛkʃəˈnɪɹ/
]
[ UK /ɪlˈɛkʃənˈiə/ ]
[ UK /ɪlˈɛkʃənˈiə/ ]
VERB
-
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
- Party electioneers know that an election held any later than the British government's selfimposed deadline of November 13 is a non-starter.
- He commenced with being a jockey; then he became an electioneerer; then a Methodist parson; then a builder of houses; and now he has dashed suddenly up to London, rushed into the clubs, mounted a wig, studied an ogle, and walks about the Opera House swinging a cane, and, at the age of fifty-six, punching young minors in the side, and saying tremulously, Godolphin, Complete
- It has come to be thought of as a stinging insult to tell a party here that it is electioneering and politicking with the peace process.
- the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare
- This underlying social and economic reality found direct expression in Howard's electioneering.
- Reading it made clear why she considered the election of 2010 even more outrageous than previous shameful Afghan escapades in electioneering and fraud. Ann Jones: Big Men, Big Money, Big Voting Scam: The American Midterm Election -- in Afghanistan
- Despite its democratic politics, the Confederacy did not allow ‘lawyers, electioneers, and tradesmen’ to become officers because it possessed an aristocratic temper and social constitution.
- The third chapter is about the basic speculation of carrying out the electioneering system in our country.
- In the blue corner, you have Michael Gove, protector of the "gold standard" of A-levels, electioneering on the accusation that Labour has "dumbed down" the system.
- He rejected claims that the announcement a week before the polls was just another bit of government electioneering.