0 to try to persuade someone to support you or to use your business:
2 to try to persuade a particular group of people to support you or use your business:
woo sb away from sth The airline was heavily discounting fares to woo passengers away from their competitors.
woo sb with sth The team's new owners hope to woo disappointed fans with several high-profile players.
Lin is trying to clear her company's legal status as she woos investors.
3 if one company woos another, the main shareholders in the first company talk to those in the second about the possibility of a merger or friendly takeover:
In attempts to woo back the audiences the theatre has a new prize-draw campaign: you can win a car by purchasing theatre tickets!
Private hospitals, in turn, woo powerful politicians and bureaucrats by treating them as very important patients, often free of cost.
What is to surround the finished human being as an object, has to be acquired and wooed strenuously by him while he is still developing.
By adamandy refusing their lovers' wooing they make desire an end in and of itself.
And populist rhetoric was borne in an endeavour to woo the people.
The great museums turned their backs on the citizens and wooed the tourists instead.
But she insists that he will regret it if he woos her.
Factional bosses have no less desire for the top prizes, but the new rules should give them fewer resources with which to woo followers in pursuit of those prizes.
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