The word 'schmooze' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe engaging in friendly conversation with someone and trying to win their favor. For example: "I spent the evening schmoozing with the potential investor."
"I think Cuadrilla and Centrica are doing a bit of a schmooze job," says Blackpool landlady Claire Smith.
On manicured greens and fairways, business lobbyists schmooze with golfing politicians.
Most would-be winemakers must flatter distributors, schmooze potential investors and beg for social-media attention.
Mr Bush is unlikely to veto bills to raise the minimum wage or to restrict and make more transparent the way lobbyists schmooze lawmakers.
First you answer the young man, make it personal, schmooze...9 02: Oh, Huntsman.
By contrast, other ex-Communist countries now have youngish, polyglot leaders such as Hungary's Viktor Orban or Estonia's Mart Laar to schmooze for them at international meetings.
Only once a hopeful has proven his abilities is he free to apply for seats, schmooze local members and bid for their votes at selection hustings.The Lib Dems also screen applicants before letting local activists pass judgment.
But to find sites for his schools, and to navigate Britain's restrictive planning rules, GEMS will need to schmooze with local councils, which do not share Mr Varkey's views and which are generally hostile to any competition to state education.Outsiders think that this hostility will be the biggest obstacle.
It is the place where Nigerian Big Men schmooze, and where supplicants come to beg favours from the oil-rich federal government.
But doctors are free to prescribe drugs for such uses, which is why drug reps schmooze them.Are huge fines enough to curb dodgy drug peddling?
Oddly, however, its egalitarian instincts are not preventing Google's management from going on a traditional road show for the next two weeks to schmooze big institutional investors.Google expects a price between $108 and $135 a share, it said this week.
