单词 | electioneerer |
释义 | electioneerern. One who manages elections, who uses arts or influence to secure the return of a candidate; one skilled in such arts. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > electioneering > one who electioneerer1800 electioneer1848 1800 M. Edgeworth Eton Montem ii, in Parent's Assistant (ed. 3) VI. 150 A damn'd bad electioneerer!.. Why, unless he bought a vote, he'd never win one. 1812 M. Edgeworth Vivian ii. in Tales Fashionable Life IV. 62 Loud tongued electioneerers. 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI lxx. 99 Lord Henry was a great electioneerer, Burrowing for boroughs like a rat or rabbit. 1865 Sat. Rev. 18 Feb. 186/2 The proverbially sanguine temperament of electioneerers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1800 |
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