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Answer for the clue "Jamboree attendee ", 5 letters:
scout

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Word definitions for scout in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gyp \Gyp\ (j[i^]p), n. [Said to be a sportive application of Gr. gy`ps a vulture.] A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout . [Cant]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground. 2 An act of scouting or reconnoitering. 3 A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person employed to watch for something to happen [syn: lookout , lookout man , sentinel , sentry , watch , spotter , picket ] someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports) [syn: talent ...

Usage examples of scout.

The Boers advancing from Calvinia came into touch with the British scouts at this point, and drove them in upon January 21st.

Pitching your tent An example of continuity between the headline and the body copy is an advertisement for a line of tents sold by the Boy Scouts of America.

Prince was negotiating with Washington, while his detached scouts sought far and wide over the Eastern States looking for anything resembling an aeronautic park.

Roy instructed a class of young seamen in the management of the Prescott type of aeroplane, which has become the official aero scout of the United States Navy.

Their aircraft, milling about north of Chiang Mai, stood out clearly on radar, and his scouts had reported Thai airmobile forces gathering several kilometers to the southeast.

After giving each of the nine members of the canine scout team a pat on the head or a scratch behind the ears, and an encouraging word or two, Ake helped secure them.

Not surprisingly, Ake lost his balance and tumbled to the ground, disappearing under hundreds of kilos of insistent scout dogs.

Dickinson of Scouting Six flew through several minutes of antiaircraft fire when the third chose to fight it out on the surface, then climbed to attack altitude and carefully placed his bomb right alongside amidships.

Those who defy law and scout Constitutional obligations will, if we ever reach the arbitrament of arms, FIND OCCUPATION ENOUGH AT HOME.

We never crossed a ford uncontested, never entered a forest opening without hearing atlatl darts whistle across it at our scouts.

He said he wanted the Norrington kept close to work with Beal on the hostage rescue, but both of them knew risking Will on a scouting mission was stupid.

The last two scouts worked at pitching their bedrolls and bivvy sacks in the shadowline of the trees.

Instantly, Plank blinked the scout out into the space between the planet and its sun where the dark ship with Hara and Heath waited.

The massive fleet approached with short blinks, scouting the way, line upon line of death edging ever closer.

In 1972, scouting for the Houston Astros, Bogie administered what he believes to have been the first ever baseball psychological test, to a pitcher named Dick Ruthven.