fellow traveller

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fellow traveller

1. a companion on a journey

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a non-Communist who sympathizes with Communism

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Noun	1.	fellow traveller - a communist sympathizer (but not a member of the Communist Party) fellow traveler well-wisher, sympathiser, sympathizer - someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful
	2.	fellow traveller - a traveler who accompanies you companion, fellow traveler traveler, traveller - a person who changes location

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souputníksympatizant

συνοδοιπόρος

fellow traveller

, (US) fellow traveler

(lit) → Mitreisende(r) mf

(Pol) → Sympathisant(in) m(f)

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fellow traveller

n → compagno/a di viaggio (Pol) (with communists) → compagno/a di strada

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Milton Sublette, his former fellow traveller, and his companion in the battle scenes of Pierre's Hole, took passage in his boat.

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There is no crime too black for such a Character!" Thus reasoned I within myself, and doubtless such were the reflections of my fellow travellers.

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A UBS banker caught sight of some juicy deal information on a fellow traveller's phone and used the info to try and muscle in on the deal.

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Having already talked to a fellow traveller who had been charged PS36 for the privilege of travelling into Huddersfield, I will no longer be using this service.

Guard was doing job he went on strike to protect

Green campaign group Fellow Traveller found 70 per cent of the richest households would benefit but only 30 per cent of the poorest.

Air travel tax cuts help rich

Tom's parents, Sandra and Les Jackson A CHARITY football match will pay tribute to Tom Jackson - the heroic backpacker and Liverpool FC fan who was stabbed trying to save a fellow traveller in Australia.

Charity match in memory of Tom

A TRAIN passenger who launched a tirade of vile racist abuse against a fellow traveller has been jailed for six months.

Passenger in racist tirade gets 6mths; COURT

Being a fellow traveller on this journey through life I'm sure that you give the 10% of your earnings as it states in the Bible to those less fortunate than ourselves.

We give the most money; Your shout

A MOURNER at a traveller's funeral twice rammed his car into that of a fellow traveller, it was alleged at a weekend court at Llandudno.

Funeral mourner 'rammed car'

"He was great until he started going on about Belfast City Council," said one fellow traveller on the luxury Mediterranean voyage.

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Left, the squat he shared with fellow traveller Richard Sadler.

LIFE ON THE RUN; EXCLUSIVE PICTURES: How rapist defied the police for 10 months He's a terrible flirt ...he would charm young women to become his friends

Carr, a British Communist fellow traveller, who presented Stalin as a half-Asiatic maniac who distorted the noble work of Lenin and Bernstein, alias Trotsky.