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• n  the act of selling goods for a living
• v  sell or offer for sale from place to place

• Headed the influence peddling investigation against lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who bragged to several American Indian tribes that he could land them political favors at the Department .
• As some companies start peddling girdle-esque, gut-compressing undershirts, a.
• Allegations of high-level international influence peddling have shattered Germany's complacency.

• vending
• hawking
• vendition
• peddle
• monger
• huckster
• hawk
• vend
• pitch

News & Articles

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• Ascension eyes clampdown on door-to-door peddling
  The Ascension Parish Council is considering an ordinance that would eliminate or greatly restrict unsolicited door-to-door peddling and solicitation in the parish. Council Chairman Chris Loar says the ordinance is designed to increase safety and also to allow residents to spend time in their homes without worrying about being disturbed by someone trying to sell them unsolicited material. Anyone ...
  June 10, 2013 - KATC 3 Lafayette
• Ascension eyes clampdown on door-to-door peddling - KALB-TV News Channel 5 & CBS 2
  GONZALES, La. (AP) - The Ascension Parish Council is considering an ordinance that would eliminate or greatly restrict unsolicited door-to-door peddling and solicitation in the parish.
  June 10, 2013 - KALB Alexandria
• 8 charged with peddling laughing gas at concert
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Knoxville say they caught eight men peddling nitrous oxide outside a rock concert. According to the Knoxville News-Sentinel ( http://bit.ly/1b7tXRn ) the out-of-state ring was filling balloons with the gas - also known as "laughing gas" - and selling them outside a Widespread Panic show at the Tennessee Theater on Tuesday night.
  June 6, 2013 - New Jersey Herald

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Bloomberg
  Democrat Obama said it is "time to put an end to the corruption and influence-peddling" in Washington.
• President Bush in USA Today
  Occasionally there are allegations of mistreatment,Cheney said. "But if you trace those back, in nearly every case, it turns out to come from somebody who had been inside and released to their home country and now are peddling lies about...
• Ian Chappell in guardian.co.uk
  There are many skeletons dangling in Botham's cupboard, ranging from stories of drug-taking to general thuggery, and if he keeps peddling his lies, there's every chance more of these stories will emerge,Chappell wrote in an article in the...