ingratiate

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  1. transitive verb To bring (oneself, for example) into the favor or good graces of another, especially by deliberate effort: She quickly sought to ingratiate herself with the new administration.

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  • If the bailout bill passes (as seems likely), businesses seeking to sell their bad loans will have a powerful incentive to ingratiate themselves with whoever is president, and whoever is the Treasury Secretary, by making political donations and engaging in influence-peddling. —  OpenMarket.org
  • This vehicle was concocted to serve GM's prolonged attempt to ingratiate itself with the few hundred environmentally obsessed automotive engineers in Congress. —  Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • Being eager to ingratiate oneself with Europeans is an understandable liberal impulse.
  • "We understand Fraser felt the need to ingratiate himself with the new administration of Zuma and handed the NIA tapes over," the —  Mail & Guardian Online
  • He said that it would have been better for the NPA officials to vacate their positions "than to ingratiate themselves with the incoming executive" of the ANC.
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  1. Perhaps from Italian ingraziare, from in grazia, into favor, from Latin in grātiam : in, in; see in-2 + grātiam, accusative of grātia, favor (from grātus, pleasing; see gwerə-2 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle Latin as if *ingratiatus, past participle of *ingratiare (later Italian ingraziare), bring into favor, from Latin in, in, + gratia, favor, grace: see grace.
 

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/ɪnˈgreɪʃɪeɪt/
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