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UK
/ɪlˈɛkʃənˈiəɹɪŋ/
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[ US /ɪˌɫɛkʃəˈnɪɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ɪˌɫɛkʃəˈnɪɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the campaign of a candidate to be elected
- persuasion of voters in a political campaign
How To Use electioneering In A Sentence
- This announcement looks more like crude electioneering than a sober assessment of the implications for central government of the fiscal crisis. Times, Sunday Times
- 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
- 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.
- Interesting they ARE now going to do an Iraq war investigation, later this year, maybe, if the electioneering is going well. Home Secretary Porn Shock « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- That's called electioneering, and you can't do it within 50 yards of a voting booth.