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fund-raiser

also fundraiser, 1957, from fund (n.) + raise (v.).

Usage examples of "fund-raiser".

The Guggenheim, the Junior League, the fund-raisers at Lincoln Center, the silent auction at the Darien Country Club.

All the money went to putting on big fund-raisers that raised more money for yet more fund-raisers, in an endless cycle of onanistic vigor.

A knitwear promotion and at a charity fashion show where amateurs had modelled clothes at a fund-raiser.

He confirmed what Taylor suspected--that Allison had absolutely no interest in politics~ He also said that while they were married neither of them attended a fund-raiser for the senator, and that's when the meeting supposedly ocSteele's dark eyebrows slanted in a frown.

Joe is furious with me because I refuse to drag the kids to fund-raisers and bake sales.

In this way he compiled enormous mailing lists, which he sold to other fund-raisers, to direct mail houses, to test-market organizations, to the subscription departments of various print media and to government agencies.

I remember the police investigation and the arrest of the boys and Claire De Haven becoming outraged and holding fund-raisers.

During normal operations -- when we're not holding fund-raisers -- we spend months at a time in the field.

The senior senator from the Rocky Mountain State had been at a fund-raiser in Golden that night.

The Cretaceous Ball was our big fund-raiser, a hundred thousand dollars a seat, and in addition to the silent auction before the meal and the dancing afterwards, everybody who bought an entire table for six was entitled to their very own paleontologist as a kind of party favor.

She no longer had the large accessories: cars, beauty parlor, furniture, condo-these were long gone to fund-raiser tag sales.