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单词 vote catcher
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vote catcher
a. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which vote (see sense 2a) expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in vote-catching, vote-getting, vote-splitting, vote winning (adjectives and nouns); vote catcher, vote-getter, vote loser, vote seeker, vote-splitter, vote winner, etc.
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1820 St. Louis (Missouri) Enquirer 2 Aug. Men who..staid at home learning how to fill an office with advantage to the country and credit to themselves instead of making vote-begging-expeditions by day and night.
1887 T. H. Huxley in Life & Lett. Darwin (1887) II. 195 In the form of a vote-catching resolution.
1906 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 1 Nov. 3 He is also a strong campaigner, and has proved himself a vote-getter.
1923 Weekly Disp. 13 May 2/2 The wild men pin their faith to the Capital Levy as a vote-catcher.
1931 Economist 17 Oct. 723/1 Vote-splitting will be avoided as far as possible.
1950 W. S. Churchill In Balance (1951) 391 Great harm was done to national interests at the General Election by the policy of the Liberal Party in running hopeless or vote-splitting candidatures in hundreds of constituencies.
a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 150 Immigration can be the greatest potential vote-loser for the Labour Party.
1991 Mirabella Feb. 32/3 When the hurly burly of vote catching is transformed by a charisma powerful enough to move an entire nation, a myth is made.
1997 Fortnight Feb. 15/1 Flag-waving patriotism is a great vote-winner.
2009 Economist 20 June 63/1 The government's eagerness to boost spending to counter the recession is ideal for populist vote-getting.
2016 Winnipeg Free Press 10 Aug. a5/1 Republicans lamented another wasted campaign day, stuck in controversy rather than rolling toward a vote-winning message.
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