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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
supporter
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a committed supporter
▪ He remains a committed supporter of the present government.
a passionate supporter of sb/sth
▪ President Johnson was a passionate supporter of the space programme.
an active supporter
▪ The company is an active supporter of animal rights groups.
ardent supporter
▪ an ardent supporter of free trade
enthusiastic supporter
▪ He is an enthusiastic supporter of the war.
football supporter (=someone who supports a particular football team)
▪ 55 football supporters were arrested after the game.
loyal supporter
▪ a loyal supporter of the team
rival fans/supporters
▪ There were fights between rival fans after the match.
staunch supporter/ally/advocate
▪ one of Bush’s staunchest supporters
vocal opponent/critic/supporter etc
▪ She was a vocal opponent of the plan.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
▪ The Midland Group has been an active supporter of the railway since 1955, both practically and financially.
▪ For the remainder of his until his death in June 1989 he nevertheless remained an active and devoted supporter.
ardent
▪ I was an ardent admirer and supporter of MacBrayne's buses: they opened up the north-west for me.
▪ Jerry Falwell were ardent supporters of the Likud and its policies.
▪ Hope was an ardent supporter of the Society, and was its President from June 1859 until its dissolution after 1878.
▪ Then Macleod, to the astonishment of some of his most ardent supporters, decided not to enter the lists.
▪ He held numerous cabinet posts and was an ardent supporter of Mrs Thatcher.
▪ Many were held in the scientific institutions where some of the nonconformists most ardent supporters worked.
conservative
▪ By the end of the campaign, Labour identifiers were 41 percent more optimistic than Conservative supporters about Labour's chances.
▪ But this attitude on the part of conservative supporters may also be due to status differences.
▪ A Mori poll last week gave him the support of 29 % of Conservative supporters compared with 25 % for Mr Portillo.
▪ The evidence for this is mixed, showing that a great number of those who bought shares were already Conservative supporters anyway.
▪ But it is a happy thought that Glenda Jackson probably affects Conservative supporters in much the same way.
▪ On the one hand Conservative supporters seem more concerned about the outcome on Thursday and are fractionally more likely to vote.
▪ As the figures show, Conservative supporters are keenest that their party should govern on its own.
▪ There have been plenty of City frauds and scandals involving Conservative supporters.
enthusiastic
▪ However, he later recognised John Baskerville's genius and became his enthusiastic supporter.
▪ The governors have power and responsibility, with just a little encouragement they can also become a most enthusiastic supporters club.
▪ Gary has had an interest in nature since childhood and is an enthusiastic supporter of conservation and environmental issues.
▪ Her predecessor, Karl-Heinz Funke, was himself a farmer and an enthusiastic supporter of intensive agricultural methods.
▪ One enthusiastic supporter more than a century ago offered to go without pudding for a year to raise much-needed funds.
▪ Harwell's director, Sir John Cockcroft, was an enthusiastic supporter of fusion research.
fervent
▪ A fervent supporter of Home Rule, he had converted to the Roman Catholic faith.
firm
▪ As a former schoolmaster, he has always been outspoken on education issues and a firm supporter of traditional learning methods.
▪ Bob Dole had seemed a firm supporter, but that was then.
labour
▪ Naturally, Labour supporters have shrouded MacDonald's name in treachery.
▪ The recession had no discernible consequences for the ability of Labour and its supporters to maintain political work.
▪ In the Labour Party the supporters of rearmament - Dalton and Bevin - were forced to work behind the scenes.
▪ In view of the threat of expulsions contained in these circulars, Labour supporters of Unity had to reconsider their position.
▪ Whereas most of the Heralds readers were Labour supporters, only two-thirds of the Mirror's were.
▪ It's a story which should inspire all Merseyside's Labour supporters and ensure the Tories do not become complacent. 17.
▪ A larger proportion of Labour supporters favour a deal with the Liberal Democrats.
▪ Eventually, I muttered that we were Labour supporters.
loyal
▪ There is a limit to the knocks loyal supporters can take.
▪ Oregon has an organization like this too, called the Fast Break Club, with fifty loyal supporters.
▪ For 30 years, he was a paid-up and apparently loyal supporter of its policies.
▪ Mrs Roosevelt had a much stronger and more loyal band of supporters than Mrs Clinton does.
▪ Paul Alexandre, his loyal and sympathetic supporter, left Paris to serve in the army medical service.
▪ Many of our most active and fervently loyal members and supporters are members through direct entry.
▪ The loyal and paying supporter demands greater respect from the club.
political
▪ They are inseparable. Political supporters have been invited to White House functions since the beginning of the republic.
staunch
▪ A staunch supporter of the Good Friday agreement, he is the first victim of the Troubles since July.
▪ However, after learning of the Midway plan, he became one of its staunchest supporters.
▪ The occasion will, I hear, attract Mrs T's staunchest supporters.
strong
▪ Even its long-standing strong supporters are cautious in their appraisals today.
▪ In fact, Downtown in general has nearly as strong a supporter in Riordan as it had with his predecessor Tom Bradley.
▪ Modernization theory, like the Weber thesis, has its strong supporters and its strong detractors.
▪ Pat Buchanan has built a strong coalition of supporters.
▪ Both were strong supporters of municipal enterprise.
▪ He is a strong supporter of a bill before Congress to limit the number of death penalty appeals to four.
■ NOUN
dole
▪ Among Dole supporters, 28 percent took that view.
▪ Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., a Dole supporter, immediately attacked the idea of decertification.
football
▪ I don't just mean football supporters, or race-goers, or athletics buffs.
▪ And those football supporters, storming the terraces.
▪ My generation of football supporters have no idea at all if George Best or even Pele were that good.
▪ After all, some of them might be football supporters.
▪ It's a long shot, but well worth trying. Football supporters aren't the only ones who go around enmasse.
▪ Male speaker They're football supporters through and through up here.
▪ Furthermore, the fans themselves, although recognising the different types of football supporter, will not think in terms of a career structure.
■ VERB
lead
▪ The Trust is one of the world's leading non-government supporters of medical research.
▪ The leader of the revolt was Antonio Palacios Miranda whose first act was to imprison the leading government supporters in that area.
▪ This has led supporters of this particular point of view to deny the premise.
▪ And these wives are largely locked into a role of helpmate and lead supporter for their husband-the-diplomat.
▪ The initiative is no cure-all, emphasizes Ross Forney, who led the supporters.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stalwart supporter/ally etc
▪ Few people could have made a less favorable impression or turned out to be such a stalwart ally.
▪ They are her stalwart supporters in a dosed, oppressive world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Supporters of women's rights are protesting against the court's decision.
▪ a Labour Party supporter
▪ Milan supporters cheered as they scored their first goal in two games.
▪ Mill was a strong supporter of political reform.
▪ Several supporters were arrested outside the stadium.
▪ She had always been one of the prime minister's strongest supporters.
▪ The town was full of football supporters, waiting for the big day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hormel is a long-time supporter of the Democratic Party and there were no suggestions of wrongdoing on his part.
▪ How does he sound populist without offending his supporters in the corporate boardroom?
▪ It was the revolutionaries who were the villains, the Royals and their supporters the good and kind and handsome heroes.
▪ Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble.
▪ Nevertheless, Kasparov is coming under increasing criticism from his supporters for his stubborn adherence to the Grunfeld Defence.
▪ Rangers' supporters replied in kind, and so the blood feud went on and on - and continues to this day.
▪ The strongest opposition is likely to come from supporters of nuclear power, which was cut sharply in the Clinton budget.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supporter

Supporter \Sup*port"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.

    The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured.
    --Bacon.

    The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries.
    --South.

  2. Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate.

  3. (Shipbuilding) A knee placed under the cathead.

  4. (Her.) A figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and exterior to it. Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures.

  5. (Med.) A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
supporter

early 15c., "adherent, partisan," agent noun from support (v.). Meaning "that which supports" is from 1590s.

Wiktionary
supporter

n. 1 A person who gives support to someone or something. 2 # A person who supports, promotes, advocates or champions a cause or movement; an adherent. 3 # A person who provides moral or physical support to another; an attendant participating in a ceremony or procession. 4 # (context sports English) Someone who is a fan of a certain sports team or sportsperson. 5 Something that supports another thing. 6 # Something that supports a structure such as a building or a sculpture. 7 # (context heraldry English) An animal or figure that supports a shield in a coat of arms. 8 # A garter worn around the leg to support a sock or stocking. 9 # (short for athletic supporter English)

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WordNet
supporter

  1. n. a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" [syn: protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend]

  2. someone who supports or champions something [syn: patron, sponsor]

  3. a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work" [syn: assistant, helper, help]

  4. a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) [syn: garter]

  5. a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise [syn: athletic supporter, suspensor, jockstrap, jock]

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Wikipedia
Supporter

In heraldry, supporters are figures usually placed on either side of the shield and depicted holding it up. Unlike the coronet or helmet and crest, supporters were not part of medieval heraldry. Early forms of supporters are found in medieval seals; as part of the heraldic achievement, they first become fashionable towards the end of the 15th century, and even in the 17th century were not necessarily part of the full heraldic achievement (being absent, for example, in Siebmachers Wappenbuch of 1605).

The figures used as supporters may be based on real or imaginary animals, human figures, and in rare cases plants or inanimate objects. Often, these can have local significance, such as the fisherman and the tin miner granted to Cornwall County Council, or a historical link; such as the lion of England and unicorn of Scotland in the two variations of the Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom. The arms of nutritionist John Boyd-Orr use two 'garbs' (wheat sheaves) as supporters; the arms of the USS Donald Cook, missiles; the arms of the state of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, trees. Letters of the alphabet are used as supporters in the arms of Valencia, Spain.

Human supporters can also be allegorical figures, or, more rarely, specifically named individuals.

There is usually one supporter on each side of the shield, though there are some examples of single supporters placed behind the shield, and the arms of the Congo provide an extremely unusual example of supporters issuing from behind the shield. While such single supporters are generally eagles with one or two heads, there are other examples, including the cathedra in the case of some Canadian cathedrals. At the other extreme and even rarer, the Scottish chief Dundas of that Ilk had three supporters: two conventional red lions and the whole supported by a salamander. The coat of arms of Iceland even has four supporters.

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Usage examples of "supporter".

As the long waves of amphtracs, each trailing a plume of white spray, raced with their supporters toward the beaches, the fire support battleships, cruisers and destroyers, anchored only 1250 yards off shore, delivered frontal and enfilading fire on beach defenses.

At last, he turned back to the magnate, who had been a firm supporter of his rule since that blustery day in Sagun-tum nine years before.

When he got discouraged, Marcie was his staunchest supporter and cheerleader.

Whether Yousef was involved or not, the timing of the OKC bombing threatened to cause a mistrial in the case against his supporter in the Trade Center bombing, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.

The most relaxed Preservationist is an order of magnitude more security-conscious than our most diligent supporter.

Matters were involved in greater peril at home: for besides Sextius and Licinius, the proposers of the laws, re-elected tribunes of the commons now for the eighth time, Fabius also, military tribune, father-in-law of Stolo, avowed himself the unhesitating supporter of those laws of which he had been the adviser.

It is thus clear that Dostoevsky considered himself, far from being a partisan of reaction, to stand somewhere in the middle as an enthusiastic supporter of all the liberal innovations, beginning with the abolition of serfdom, instituted by Alexander II.

Hiraga left, keeping his head on his tatami to hide the gnashing of his few remaining broken teeth, wanting to humble Hiraga, make him sweat, telling him, not sorry at all: oh so sorry, your late whore Koiko was implicated in the plot, so was your trained female assassin and wife-to-be Sumomo who had her head chopped off too, and your shishi supporter Meikin, mama-san to the most important men in Yedo--even Gyokoyama leaders--is not long for this earth because we surmise Yoshi knows all this too.

The new deputy defense secretary saw Saddam as unchastened by his Gulf War defeat and a supporter of terrorism.

And yet, improbable and unphilosophical as it is, it has never found a lack of supporters.

Those attempts led to new violent confrontations between the government and supporters of the FIS, including the jailing of a prominent FIS leader, Abbasi Madani.

Then one hot September night I attended a meeting of ardent Adlai supporters like myself, and a tall sandy-haired young man took the floor.

In mid-1991, Bin Ladin dispatched a band of supporters to the northern Afghanistan border to assist the Tajikistan Islamists in the ethnic conflicts that had been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became independent states.

I could now, that that man driving a European sports car rather too fast through the main highway nexus was probably a supporter of the Citizens of Vados, and that consequently the long-faced Amerind lighting a candle and crossing himself before the wall shrine in the market was prepared to hate him on principle.

I threw in the job now, it was certain that Angers or someone in the traffic department with a direct emotional involvement in the situation would be ordered to solve the problem to the taste of the governmentor rather, of their well-to-do supporters.