ELECTIONEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electioneer mean? 

• ELECTIONEER (verb)
  The verb ELECTIONEER has 1 sense:

1. work actively for a political candidate or a party

  Familiarity information: ELECTIONEER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTIONEER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they electioneer    ... he / she / it electioneers   
Past simple: electioneered   
Past participle: electioneered   
-ing form: electioneering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work actively for a political candidate or a party

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

My neighbors are busy electioneering during the Presidential election campaign

Hypernyms (to "electioneer" is one way to...):

work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

electioneering (the campaign of a candidate to be elected)

electioneering (persuasion of voters in a political campaign)