fundraiser

plural fundraisers · alternative fund-raiser

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

   This year’s fundraiser will be a walkathon.

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   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.

   2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

2. A person who collects money from the public for some cause.

   She works as fundraiser for the Democratic Party.

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   The symphony will employ women as musicians, conductors, administrators, musicologists, composers and fund raisers.

   1978 December 9, Lynn Tibbets, Amy Hoffman, “N.E.W.S. News”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 8