单词 | campaigner |
释义 | campaignern. One who serves in a campaign; esp. one who has served in many campaigns, a veteran; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > veteran soldier veteran?1504 man of service1553 campaigner1771 old moustache1828 warhorse1836 vet1848 Old Bill1915 old sweat1919 retread1941 grognard1959 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker Both horse and rider were old campaigners, and stood without moving a muscle. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xi. 177 I am an old campaigner, and perfectly used to it. 1858 H. W. Longfellow Emperor's Bird's-nest vi Forth the great campaigner came Slowly from his canvas palace. Draft additions March 2017 a. Politics (originally and chiefly U.S.). A candidate who is standing for election. Also: a person working or canvassing for a particular candidate running in an election. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > candidate candidate1609 campaigner1839 machine candidate1906 1839 New Yorker 17 Aug. 345/2 Mr. Polk has proved himself an excellent campaigner. 1905 News (Malden, Mass.) in Westm. Gaz. 7 Nov. 12/1 Congressman Roberts has been so successful a campaigner and still had his hair cut pompadour. 1954 Los Angeles Sentinel 24 June a5/3 (headline) Gordon thanks campaigners for election help. 1974 J. M. Mileur & G. T. Sulzner Campaigning for Mass. Senate iv. 86 While the total number of full-time campaigners was small, about ten times as many of them worked for nonincumbents as for incumbents. 1992 W. J. M. Cody & R. R. Lynn Honest Govt. iii. 38 Voters offended by negative campaigning may still vote for that campaigner. 2000 AAP Newsfeed (Nexis) 6 Aug. He is such an effective campaigner..he will perform a lot better than people think. 2014 Å. Bengtsson et al. Nordic Voter vii. 103 Finnish election campaigns were professionalised early with the use of campaigners..whereas Danish campaigns were conducted mostly by the party activists and the candidates themselves. b. A person who engages in activism supporting a particular social or political cause. Frequently as the second element in compounds. countryside, environmental, peace campaigner: see first element. ΚΠ 1927 N.Y. Herald Tribune 29 July 14/5 (headline) ‘Equal rights’ campaigners. 1960 News Chron. 22 Apr. 6/3 The ban-the-bomb campaigners are well advanced with their arrangements to make a new challenge. 1977 Times 23 Feb. 7/1 In an apparent gesture of goodwill towards the country's principal campaigner for human rights, the Romanian authorities today showed great political skill. 1988 Bella 4 Apr. 6/5 Since her daughter's abduction, Suzy's mother Diana has become a passionate campaigner for the safety of women at work. 2008 B. Goldacre Bad Sci. xv. 276 In an article from Scientific American in 1888 you can find the very same arguments which modern antivaccination campaigners continue to use today. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1771 |
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