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Campaigner

Campaigner \Cam*paign"er\, n.

  1. One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.

  2. one who is campaigning, especially a politician running for elective office, or one of his/her supporters.

Wiktionary
campaigner

n. 1 A person who has served in a military campaign. 2 (context by extension English) A military veteran. 3 A person who campaigns for a person running for political office. 4 Someone with experience in a certain field. 5 An activist.

WordNet
campaigner

n. a politician who is running for public office [syn: candidate, nominee]

Usage examples of "campaigner".

By linking cocaine use with blacks and white women, antidrug campaigners were pulling out all the stops, as they knew that the image of racial minorities having congress with white women would strike at the heart of American society - the very bloodline of the country.

These old campaigners weep a lot about home, but when an interesting campaign crops up, somehow home loses its allure.

An old campaigner like Nicol Kyd doesna travel the roads without sundry small delicacies in his saddle-bags, for in some of these English hedge-inns a merciful man wouldna kennel his dog.

The most vocal campaigner has been former City Manager Howard Gary, who's not even running for office.

There we lingered only long enough for me to get a good night's sleep, and for one of the old campaigners to cook for me my first hot meal since I had left them: a plump pheasant broiled over the fire.

And a group of militant anti-GM campaigners are being pursued by Interpol, after their announcement that they have spliced a metabolic pathway for cyanogenic glycosides into maize seed corn destined for human-edible crops.

In the main HQ, campaigners were still clustered around pizza boxes.

Bryne knew his patience sounded a little frayed this time, but Barim was an old enough campaigner to stick to the matter at hand.

Although Jaromir looked fit, weather-burned, Eugene, a seasoned campaigner, saw from the way his right arm hung awkwardly that he had been injured.