Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is or has been in active service in a campaign or campaigns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.
- noun one who is campaigning, especially a politician running for elective office, or one of his/her supporters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who has served in a
military campaign - noun by extension A military
veteran - noun A person who campaigns for a person running for
political office - noun Someone with experience in a certain field.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a politician who is running for public office
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Examples
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To marginalize the President of the United States of America as nothing more than a "campaigner" is pretty pathetic.
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Some people were amused by the idea and tweeted the link of the article and a friend of mine wrote to me saying that the campaigner is likely to have a crowd supporting his campaign that you could fit in a phone booth.
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RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”.
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RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”. here
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This Wright thing being choreographed by a Clinton campaigner is the last straw.
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It's about having a more effective Welsh Government and any no campaigner is in my opinion, a traiter to the people of Wales.
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In a letter to the Met on January 23, Mr Watson - a long-term campaigner on the hacking issue - urged officers to examine whether a crime had been committed and whether the newspaper had misled the court.
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Sara Payne, mother of Sarah and long-term campaigner on opening up information for parents, welcomed the next stage of the roll out.
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Sara Payne, mother of Sarah and long-term campaigner on opening up information for parents, welcomed the next stage of the roll out.
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Sara Payne, mother of Sarah and long-term campaigner on opening up information for parents, welcomed the next stage of the roll out.
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