Word Meanings - ELECTIONEER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to ELECTIONEER)

• SECURIFORM
  Having the form of an ax hatchet.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• CANDIDATESHIP
  Candidacy.
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• INTERESTED
  1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• SECURITY
  1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
• INTERESTINGNESS
  The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.
• ELECTIONEERER
  One who electioneers.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• MASTERFULLY
  In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
• MASTERSINGER
  One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
• SECURELY
  In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely. His daring foe . . . securely him defied. Milton.
• WHOLE-SOULED
  Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
• ELECTIONEER
  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.
• SECUREMENT
  The act of securing; protection. Society condemns the securement in all cases of perpetual protection by means of perpetual imprisonment. C. A. Ives.
• MASTERLINESS
  The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
• BANDMASTER
  The conductor of a musical band.
• PRELECTION
  A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.
• HARBOR MASTER
  An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• BEEMASTER
  One who keeps bees.
• POSTMASTERSHIP
  The office of postmaster.