glad-hand

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The former general has been hired by the bank to raise its profile and help glad-hand clients in a role that cashes in on his unique combination of celebrity and public credibility as the most outspoken chief of staff in decades.

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  1. transitive verb To extend a glad hand to: presidential hopefuls glad-handing the factory workers.
  2. intransitive verb To extend a glad hand: was whistle-stopping and glad-handing for the last five months.

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  • The former general has been hired by the bank to raise its profile and help glad-hand clients in a role that cashes in on his unique combination of celebrity and public credibility as the most outspoken chief of staff in decades. —  canada.com Top Stories
  • As mayor, she didn't do much except hold her hand out to Don Young, Frank / Lisa Murkowski, and Ted Stevens and glad-hand with the public - the city manager ran the daily operations of the city (I know, I was a city manager). —  doggdot.us
  • That means being contractually obliged to glad-hand with sponsors, turn up for television interviews and seek the approval of tour officials before signing book deals and agreements to write for magazines. —  Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
  • Brown will have another chance to glad-hand LGBT voters when he will be the featured guest at the Stonewall Democrats Sacramento chapter's annual gala in May.
  • BT chairman Sir Michael Rake went to the Welsh Assembly on Monday, to glad-hand politicos and lobby for local government cash for deploying fibre in the pricipality. —  The Register
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