CAMP FOLLOWER


Meaning of CAMP FOLLOWER in English

also camp-follower

(~s)

1.

If you describe someone as a ~, 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 ~s.

N-COUNT disapproval

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.

N-COUNT

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