STANDARD BEARER


Meaning of STANDARD BEARER in English

also standard-bearer

( standard bearers)

If you describe someone as the standard bearer of a group, you mean that they act as the leader or public representative of a group of people who have the same aims or interests.

Farrakhan was a poor standard-bearer for the causes of African-Americans.

N-COUNT : usu with supp

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