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- noun A group of people who are paid to attend an event to increase attendance figures, rather than attending of their own
volition .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I dont think I raised my voice – let alone drew baton. until … ‘rent-a-crowd’ turned up and made it into a ‘bash the pigs’ ….
Be Carefull What You Wish For « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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There is no doubt that people came from all works of life -- east, west, north, south, everywhere -- but I am saying this is a rented crowd, anyone can do it and increasingly, this rent-a-crowd business has become so professionalized because there is a very high level of unemployment.
Former Nigerian Military Leader Enters Presidential Race 2010
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He will have West Point's young army cadets mobilized as the studio audience with orders to cheer him on -- announcing his massive escalation there because no audience other than the military or a rent-a-crowd of Republican campaigners could be counted on to celebrate Obama's war.
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While the last thing police should do is turn the rent-a-crowd into martyrs, their right to protest does not run to inflicting even greater economic pain on workers whose jobs are already on the line.
There was much on the radio... Joanna Bogle 2009
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Think, also, what license the dyslexic rent-a-crowd poster-scribblers will have with Barack Obama's moniker.
Terry Krepel: John L. Perry's Greatest Obama-Hating Hits 2009
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I've been a member of my share of "rent-a-crowd" events.
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Thatcher was thrown out, but Tony hires rent-a-crowd for his farewell party.
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Were Labour really so desperate that they had to bus in rent-a-crowd?
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He said the anger of the renaming was genuine and there was "no rent-a-crowd".
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On the third of July, we had the usual agonizing reception: Guests stood around until the Chinese arrived and sat in the only chairs and are; our top-ranking staff talked to theirs; and their rent-a-crowd ate us out of house and home.
Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005
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