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Electioneer

Definition: Electioneer

Electioneer

Verb

1. Work actively for a political candidate or a party; "My neighbors are busy electioneering during the Presidential election campaign".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Electioneer \E*lec`tion*eer"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Electionered; present participle verb or noun Electioneering.]. (Websters 1913)

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Crosswords: Electioneer

English words defined with "electioneer": Electionered. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Electioneer

"Electioneer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Electioneer" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)75%3202,518
Unclassified Items25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Electioneer

Language Translations for "electioneer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏قاد حملة إنتخابية. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

правя предизборна агитация. (various references)

   

Czech

  

agitovat před volbami. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

harjoittaa vaalikiihotusta. (various references)

   

German

  

wahlhilfe leisten, als wahlhelfer arbeiten. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ψηφοθηρώ (canvass). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

korteskedik (canvass, to canvass). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fare propaganda elettorale. (various references)

   

Manx

  

reihys (choiceness, election). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

electioneeray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

dia de eleição. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

face propagandã electoralã (canvass). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

voditi predizbornu kampanju. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hacer la campaña electoral. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

deltagare i valkampanj, delta i valkampanj, agitera (agitate, canvass), agitator (agitator, demagog, demagogue). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ใช้อิทธิพลหรือวิธีการที่ไม่ซื่อสัตย์เพื่อไ"้คะแนนเสียงมา, ร"รงค์หาเสียงให้ผู้สมัครรับเลือกตั้ง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

seçim propagandası yapmak (go on the stump, stump, take the stump). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

проводити передвиборну кампанію. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người vận động bầu cử. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Electioneer

Derivations

Words beginning with "electioneer": electioneered, electioneerer, electioneerers, electioneering, electioneers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Electioneer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: electionaire. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Electioneer"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "electioneer" (pronounced ule'kshuni"r)
6-k sh u n i" rauctioneer.
5-sh u n i" rconventioneer.
4-u n i" rbioengineer, domineer, engineer, mutineer, pioneer, reengineer, souvenir, veneer.
3-n i" rnear, Rainier, sneer.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Electioneer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-e-i-l-n-o-r-t"

-1 letter: reelection.

-2 letters: centriole.

-3 letters: election, electron, erectile, erection, neoteric.

-4 letters: centile, cineole, cointer, coterie, electee, elector, electro, eloiner, enteric, enticer, lectern, lection, licente, noticer, recline, reelect, reticle, retinol, teenier, tiercel.

-5 letters: ceiler, cenote, center, centre, cerite, cineol, citole, citron, client, cloner, coiler, coiner, colter, cornel, cornet, cortin, crenel, creole, cretin, eelier, encore, enolic, entice, entire, entoil, entree, erotic, eterne, etoile, lectin, lector, lentic, lictor, lierne, linter, loiter, neroli, noetic, norite, notice, oleine, orcein, orient, recent, recite, recoil, recoin, relent, relict, reline, retene, retile, retine, teener, tenrec, tercel, tierce, toiler, tonier, triene.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-e-i-l-n-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: electioneers.

 

+2 letters: electioneered, electioneerer.

 

+3 letters: electioneerers, electioneering, electrogenesis, interelectrode.

 

+4 letters: electronegative, interelectrodes.

 

+5 letters: teleconferencing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Electioneer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6C 65 63 74 69 6F 6E 65 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100101 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006C 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E 0065 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3978716986758180717184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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