What's the difference between spruik and spruiker?

Spruik


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) He had committed to attend the show – and was likely to spruik the agriculture white paper – having said as recently as Sunday morning that he would be there.
  • (2) To do good medical research you need good chemistry and good physics and good biology and good genetics … it doesn’t make sense to separate one thing out.” Abbott and Dutton were again spruiking the new fund on Monday, but few leading scientists entirely agree with the strategy.
  • (3) It’s a far cry from the usual desperate pleas for attendance from those emotionally and physically ragged students who march up and down the street spruiking petitions and street press rags.
  • (4) My only financial benefit was the remuneration I was receiving at KPMG.” Conroy said: “That is actually the definition of conflict of interest … receiving money from the people you're now going to spruik for.” Fitzgerald responded: “I'm not spruiking for anybody.” Infrastructure Australia provides advice to the government on infrastructure priorities but it is up to the government to decide whether and where to allocate funding.
  • (5) Her income is higher than it was before and she can afford someone to come in for four hours a day to help out, but it is nothing like the paid holiday that advocates of do-what-you-love independence spruik.
  • (6) But Shorten does have the advantage of entering the election fight knowing what he’s selling and why, and not having to spruik a bunch of policies everyone knows he doesn’t believe in.
  • (7) MinMetals spruiked Robert’s visit on its website by saying the then assistant defence minister was speaking “on behalf of the Australian Department of Defence”.
  • (8) (Christensen and Bernardi say it has resurfaced now because “more information has come to light” which is a neatly circular argument since it is them and their fellow conservative objectors who have been spruiking the new “information”.)
  • (9) That would be the kind of supporters who are willing to fundraise, doorknock, spruik on social media and take the personal time to convince their friends, relatives and neighbours that Labor have a political vision worth voting for.
  • (10) After all the venom spruiked about debt, deficit and the so-called “budget emergency”, Joe Hockey and Andrew Robb produced a four-year budget which was only $6bn different from Labor’s.
  • (11) Fitzgerald replied: "I'm not spruiking for anybody."
  • (12) This explains why the bulk of the billions of dollars extra the former Labor government was spruiking was due to arrive beyond the four-year budget cycle – and why the Coalition never committed to match funding beyond the first four years.
  • (13) He said at the time his vote “was not a vote for deregulation” but “to continue discussion”, but as the government embarked on an $8m advertising campaign to spruik the defeated package and a new round of lobbying to secure its passage this year, it was widely assumed it would secure Muir’s support.
  • (14) During question time on Tuesday, Abbott evaded questions on the cabinet leaks, instead spruiking the government’s credentials on national security.
  • (15) Conroy said: "That is actually the definition of conflict of interest … receiving money from the people you're now going to spruik for."
  • (16) Crossbench seek sweeteners for supporting revised family benefit cuts Read more While the childcare changes are not scheduled to start until 2017, they would be harder to spruik in the 2016 election year if the government had failed to secure its self-identified funding stream.

Spruiker


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Maloneys, like many other property investors in mining towns, were lured by the spruikers and property market “educators” who claimed that interest-only loans and negative gearing were a sure bet to new found wealth.
  • (2) Of course, the mining industry and its backers and spruikers have a razor sharp agenda.

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