CAMP FOLLOWER


Meaning of CAMP FOLLOWER in English

also camp-follower

( camp followers)

1.

If you describe someone as a camp follower , you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.

...the Tory leader’s friends and camp followers.

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2.

Camp followers are people who travel with an army or other group, especially members of soldiers’ families, or people who supply goods and services to the army.

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