Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who assists or favors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who assists or favors by his vote.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One who assists or favours by his
vote .
Etymologies
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Latin suffrāgātor ("voter")
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Examples
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Caveat suffragator: on the election catwalk this Fall, Stéphane Dion and his colleagues will be strutting their stuff, but it's only their latest collection of sheep's clothing. posted by Dr.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Representative Bob Ney, implicated in the Abramoff scandals, resigned his congressional seat, having been reportedly warned by his majority leader that if he stayed and lost his seat for his party, he “could not expect a lucrative career on K Street” — that is, he would jeopardize any future as an influence peddler, what the Romans called a suffragator.
The Sack of Washington Murphy, Cullen 2007
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