The foot soldiers of a particular organization are people who seem unimportant and who do not have a high position but who do a large amount of very important and often very boring work.
foot soldier in British English
noun
an infantryman
infantryman in British English
(ˈɪnfəntrɪmən)
nounWord forms: plural-men
a soldier belonging to the infantry
foot soldier in American English
1.
a soldier who moves and fights largely on foot; infantryman
2.
a person who does the hard or routine work at the lowest levels of an organization, group, etc.
Examples of 'foot soldier' in a sentence
foot soldier
Or the foot soldiers getting quietly into position.