0 to collect something, usually after much work or with difficulty:
1 to get or earn something valuable or respected, often with difficulty:
Instead, it garnered "reflexive" opinions through anonymous written surveys.
Because of this threat, the incumbent spends more but the spendthrift incumbent will fail to garner votes effectively.
In the area under investigation, the opposition garnered between 63% and 84% of the votes that were cast and valid, according to the ballot bureaus.
In practice, of course, this funding mechanism cannot guarantee expenditure control: politicians may, in certain parts of the electoral cycle, manipulate expenditure to garner votes.
As we grow older, each of us garners these complexities in individually inflected ways, as our critical and imaginative store.
Extreme theses and antitheses garner more attention, increase citation rates, and sell books.
Of course, leaders may be able to garner corrupt rents under plurality rule as well.
Meanwhile, double doses of attention are garnered from the attending physician, who must assess the patient herself while also addressing the medical student's assessment.
