ELECTIONEERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electioneering mean? 

• ELECTIONEERING (noun)
  The noun ELECTIONEERING has 2 senses:

1. persuasion of voters in a political campaign

2. the campaign of a candidate to be elected

  Familiarity information: ELECTIONEERING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTIONEERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Persuasion of voters in a political campaign

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bell ringing; canvassing; electioneering

Hypernyms ("electioneering" is a kind of...):

persuasion; suasion (the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action)

Derivation:

electioneer (work actively for a political candidate or a party)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The campaign of a candidate to be elected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

campaigning; candidacy; candidature; electioneering; political campaign

Hypernyms ("electioneering" is a kind of...):

campaign; cause; crusade; drive; effort; movement (a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end)

Meronyms (parts of "electioneering"):

whistle-stop tour (a tour by a candidate as part of a political campaign in which a series of small towns are visited)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electioneering"):

front-porch campaign; front-porch campaigning (a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel)

hustings (the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making))

whispering campaign (the organized dissemination of derogatory rumors designed to discredit a candidate)

stumping (campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches))

Derivation:

electioneer (work actively for a political candidate or a party)