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wooed; wooing; woos

transitive verb

1
: to sue for the affection of and usually marriage with : court
2
: to solicit or entreat especially with importunity
woo new customers
3
: to seek to gain or bring about

intransitive verb

: to court a woman
wooer noun

Example Sentences

The store had a sale in an effort to woo new customers. The company must find creative ways to woo new employees.
Recent Examples on the Web Making foldables more durable may woo some holdouts, analysts say, but price likely matters even more. Dalvin Brown, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022 Balwani's lawyers tried to shift the blame onto Holmes, once a rising star in Silicon Valley and the face of the company's effort to woo investors. Harold Maass, The Week, 8 July 2022 Randolph couldn’t woo any merger partners, said Lisk. Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 22 June 2022 The presence of Senegal’s minister of economy, Amadou Hott, at the opening ceremony showcased the French-speaking region’s recent trend of appointing business-savvy, bilingual leaders to key government positions to woo investors. Ndeye Diarra Diobaye, Quartz, 31 May 2022 And just a few weeks ago, the New York Times reported that the company and cofounder Ryan Breslow had inflated some metrics to woo investors. Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 27 May 2022 Schaar said rehearsing the role of Rosalind — a woman disguised as a man who pretends to be a woman to woo Orlando — has been liberating. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022 Pierpoint is a place where fresh-faced Oxford grads woo new business while sharing party drugs, colleagues engage in sadistic psychosexual dynamics with one another, and information about fireable behavior is used mostly as a bargaining chip. Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 Applebee's has been trying to woo that demographic with other flavors popular with younger customers, as well. Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN, 15 Nov. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English wowen, from Old English wōgian

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of woo was before the 12th century

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