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🗣️ To make slogans 🗣️ A slogan maker
to sloganeer

to sloganeer

8.2
To make short catchy phrases to promote an idea or product
  • verb
  • /ˌsloʊɡəˈnɪr/
translation icon : crear eslóganes
  • To attract customers, the company decided to sloganeer a new advertising campaign.

Examples

  • "Sloganeering like that is what helps people make stupid business decisions.

    Blog text (9)

  • Sloganeering like that is what helps people make stupid business decisions.

    Blog text (9)

  • "Sloganeering about the need for a faculty that looks like America" is at best inconsistently applied; a study by Northwestern's James Lindgren found that the most demographically underrepresented group on law faculties, relative to the pool of available legal talent from which faculty might be drawn, are White Republican women.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Politicians often sloganeer to gain support from voters during campaigns.

  • The group aimed to sloganeer their message during the rally to inspire change.

Synonyms

to electioneer
vsto sloganeer
1 7.4

To work actively to help a candidate or party win an election

focuses specifically on creating or promoting short memorable political or advertising phrases

How Persuasive

to propagandize
  • Literature
5 9.1
to advertise
47 2.6
to sloganeer
8.2
to promote
252 3.5
to mention
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

sloganeer infinitive
sloganeered past
sloganeered past participle
sloganeering present participle
sloganeers third person singular

Morphology

sloganeer = slogan (transparent) = slogan + eer

A speaker who composes or promotes slogans is directly indicated by combining the known noun 'slogan' with the agentive suffix '-eer'.

Etymology

The verb sloganeer comes from slogan plus the ending -eer, which names a person who does something, like in volunteer. Slogan comes from old Scottish words meaning 'army' and 'cry', so to sloganeer is to make or push short, strong phrases to get people's attention.