camp follower

柯林斯詞典

1. N-COUNT 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. 隨軍流動(dòng)的平民; 特指軍隊(duì)的家屬或給軍隊(duì)提供物資和服務(wù)的人
2. N-COUNT If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage. 爲(wèi)自身利益而支持某組織或團(tuán)躰的非成員[表不滿]
...the Democratic leader's friends and camp followers. ...該民主黨領(lǐng)袖的朋友和支持他的非民主黨人士。