fundraiser

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From fund +‎ raiser.

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fundraiser (plural fundraisers)

  1. An event undertaken to get money by voluntary contributions for a particular activity or cause.
    This year’s fundraiser will be a walkathon.
    • 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      But the most politically damaging blow came from a late-breaking apostate: Mr. Clooney, who just weeks earlier had spent time with Mr. Biden and helped deliver $28 million to his campaign at a Los Angeles fund-raiser.
  2. A person who collects money from the public for some cause.
    She works as fundraiser for the Democratic Party.
    • 1978 December 9, Lynn Tibbets, Amy Hoffman, “N.E.W.S. News”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 8:
      The symphony will employ women as musicians, conductors, administrators, musicologists, composers and fund raisers.

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