单词 | naders raider |
释义 | Nader's raidern. Chiefly U.S. Originally: a student intern working on the public advocacy campaigns pursued by Nader; an activist or researcher affiliated with campaigns resembling Nader's. Later in extended use: a political supporter of Ralph Nader. ΚΠ 1969 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 6 Jan. 4/2 The students..have picked up the nickname of ‘Nader's Raiders’. 1969 Science 21 Nov. 979/3 Nader recruited five young lawyers to serve as staff and this past summer enlisted about 100 students in law, medicine, and political science, called ‘Nader's raiders’ by a friendly press, to help with the investigations. 1974 Jrnl. Black Stud. 4 324 If only the latter diagnosis were correct, then the bad guys could simply be exposed by Nader's Raiders and sent to a special home for wayward journalists. 1989 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 14 Dec. a41 The students are the ‘Nader's Raiders’ of Prague's peaceful revolution. 2000 New Republic 6 Nov. 16/1 There is no Democrat liberal enough to satisfy Nader's Raiders, because their ultimate goal is to replace the Democrats with a new party. 2001 M. Bloomberg in N.Y. Times 24 Oct. d3 Mark Green has been very liberal all of his life. He has never been pro-business... He was consumer affairs. He was Nader's raider. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1969 |
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