flag-waver
nounEtymology From flag + waver.
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A highly vocal and visible supporter of a cause.
- In every organization exists a number of so-called flagwavers. Their principal stock in trade is a boisterous verbal display of loyalty to the cause […]1910, George A. Donnelly, The Union Postal Clerk, volume 6, page 102:
- And the hardcore group of some fifty North Viet flagwavers, they're toting the yellow-star standard as if they owned it! And does General Giap know his battles are being won with the aid of every last boy and girl fluttering their flags […]1977, Sidney Bernard, Witnessing: The Seventies, page 39:
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- These kinds of empirical studies might seem like the best way of countering the claims of post-bureaucracy's flag-wavers. They certainly act as an antidote to the extravagant and self-serving claims […]2016, Chris Grey, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Organizations, 4th edition:
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