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foot soldier

noun

  1. an infantryman.
  2. a dedicated low-level follower.


foot soldier

noun

  1. an infantryman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of foot soldier1

First recorded in 1615–25
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Example Sentences

An accurate condemnation of the war on drugs would require Christie to target a particularly loud foot soldier: himself.

In other words, in the war against heart disease, you might say that Dr. Robertson is an officer and I am a foot soldier.

But, in an email to the Daily Beast, Chaffetz insisted he was simply being a loyal Republican foot soldier.

She was a foot soldier in the Congress when the assault weapons passed in 1994.

The Roman case grew out of a 2010 complaint from a gang member who essentially served as a foot soldier for the family.

Each bore upon his back a great Chimra, heavy as a sack of coal, or as the equipment of a foot-soldier of Rome.

Each horseman of the principal corps had a foot soldier riding on the same horse behind him.

Thus reduced to want, he went to London, and having enlisted as a foot-soldier, he was discharged after several years service.

Each horseman received double the share of a foot soldier, and each knight double the share of a horseman.

The latter grasped his crutch, as he had formerly seized the sword he carried as a foot soldier ere he lost his leg before Padua.

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