Crossword clues for electioneering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Electioneer \E*lec`tion*eer"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Electionered; p. pr. & vb. n. Electioneering.] To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate.
A master of the whole art of electioneering.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
n. campaign for elective office on behalf of oneself or another candidate. vb. (present participle of electioneer English)
WordNet
n. persuasion of voters in a political campaign [syn: bell ringing, canvassing]
the campaign of a candidate to be elected [syn: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, political campaign]
Usage examples of "electioneering".
I have been agent here ever since the passing of the Reform Bill, and I should know what electioneering for these burghs is.
After a little more talk, Lake and the Town Clerk resumed their electioneering conference, and the lists of electors were passed under their scrutiny, name by name, like slides under the miscroscope.
I venture to say, and he went into that electioneering without ever mentioning it either.
Mr Moffat was now coming down to Courcy Castle to look after his electioneering interests, and Miss Gresham was to return with her aunt to meet him.
Then came the shopkeepers, who might also be regarded as a stiff-necked generation, impervious to electioneering eloquence.
Perhaps it had been so with Sir Roger in those electioneering days when he was looking for votes.
So began, as all the world now knows, the most extraordinary electioneering trip that ever was known.
There were illuminations, torchlight processions, and all the machinery of American electioneering going at full blast.
He should suggest that a select committee be appointed simply to inquire into the payment, or engagements for payment, of any sum for electioneering purposes, made by the corporation of Northampton at the last election, which suggestion was adopted.
Sadler himself said that the petition was a mere election paper, made up of wanton exaggerations, and unfounded misstatements, for electioneering purposes.
It turned out a very lucrative branch of my business, and my electioneering expenses were a good investment.
After this I had no more to do with electioneering in the sense of being a candidate, but a good deal to do with it in every other.
Had America every attraction under heaven that nature and social enjoyment can offer, this electioneering madness would make me fly it in disgust.
But, last elections, Douglas worked quietly for Unionism, and gave the leaders certain hints, and put them up to various electioneering dodges which enabled them to return, in the face of Monopoly, a Labour member who is as likely to go straight as long as any other Labour member.
He felt hopeful, light-hearted, and would not confess even to himself that his good spirits were due chiefly to the certainty that in another twelve hours his electioneering would be at an end.