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fundraiser

noun
/ˈfʌnd.ɹeɪ.zɚ/US/ˈfʌnd.ɹeɪ.zə/UK

Etymology

From fund + raiser.

  1. derived from *h₃er-✻
  2. derived from *h₁rey-✻
  3. derived from *rīsaną✻
  4. derived from *raisijaną✻
  5. derived from reisa
  6. inherited from reysen
  7. suffixed as raiser — “raise + er”
  8. compounded as fundraiser — “fund + raiser”

Definitions

  1. An event undertaken to get money by voluntary contributions for a particular activity or…

    An event undertaken to get money by voluntary contributions for a particular activity or cause.

    • This year’s fundraiser will be a walkathon.
    • 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.
    • The symphony will employ women as musicians, conductors, administrators, musicologists, composers and fund raisers.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for fundraiser. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA