fellow-traveller

fellow-traveller
   a Communist sympathizer or apologist
   Trotsky's poputchnik and Lenin's useful fool who may be described as fellow-travelling:
    I knew you had some Communist friends... They thought you were a sentimental fellow-traveller, just as we did. (G. Greene, 1978)
    If such zealous organizations... were not disturbed by Churchill's new friends on the left, then he was probably pretty safe from charges of fellow-travelling. (Graham Stewart, 1999)

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  • fellow traveller — BrE fellow traveler AmE n someone who supports and agrees with the beliefs of an organization, such as the Communist Party, but does not belong to it used to show disapproval …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • fellow-traveller — ► NOUN ▪ a non member of the Communist Party who nevertheless sympathizes with its policies. DERIVATIVES fellow travelling adjective …   English terms dictionary

  • fellow traveller — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms fellow traveller : singular fellow traveller plural fellow travellers 1) a person who travels with someone else 2) someone who supports a political party, especially the Communist party, but is not a member of… …   English dictionary

  • fellow traveller — noun 1. a communist sympathizer (but not a member of the Communist Party) • Syn: ↑fellow traveler • Hypernyms: ↑sympathizer, ↑sympathiser, ↑well wisher 2. a traveler who accompanies you • Syn: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • fellow traveller — {n.} A sympathizer with a political movement who does not officially belong to the political party in question. * /Many Germans after World War II were innocently accused of being fellow travellers of Nazism./ * /During the McCarthy era, many… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • fellow traveller — {n.} A sympathizer with a political movement who does not officially belong to the political party in question. * /Many Germans after World War II were innocently accused of being fellow travellers of Nazism./ * /During the McCarthy era, many… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • fellow traveller — ▪ Soviet literature Russian  Poputchik,         originally, a writer in the Soviet Union who was not against the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 but did not actively support it as a propagandist. The term was used in this sense by Leon Trotsky in… …   Universalium

  • fellow-traveller — noun a sympathizer with, but non member of, the Communist Party. Derivatives fellow travelling adjective …   English new terms dictionary

  • fellow traveller — BrE, fellow traveler AmE noun (C) someone you disapprove of because they agree with the aims of the Communist Party …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • fellow traveller — noun a) One who travels together with another. b) One who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization, without belonging to it; most often applied to a Communist sympathizer …   Wiktionary

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