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advance man
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advance man or ad·vance·man (d-vnsmn)
n.
A man who travels ahead to arrange the details of scheduling, publicity, security, and other matters connected with a trip or public appearance, especially one to be made by a politician or dignitary: "'Spontaneous' crowds are ... built through days of effort by political advancemen" (Timothy G. Smith).
advance man
n
US an agent of a political candidate or other public figure who travels in advance of the candidate to organize publicity, arrange meetings, and make security checks


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We get details--quite a few too many, actually--on the logistical snafus, the quirks of the photographers, reporters, and swashbuckling campaign advance men, and the finer points of successfully dropping a load of balloons on the convention crowd at the climax of the proceedings.
Her Father's Daughter; The personal is the political, and vice versa by Weiner, Lauren / The Weekly Standard
Similarly, the top levels of FEMA were staffed not by people with experience in disaster response, but by advance men and spin doctors.
Tilting at windmills by Peters, Charles / Washington Monthly
[101] Third, and most fundamentally, if the monarch is willing to appoint and advance men according to their talents, he should recognize that churchmen are particularly unqualified to advise a monarch in the changing secular contexts of the sixteenth century.
Moving the Monarch. The Rhetoric of Persuasion in Camoes's Lusiadas by E SILVA, JOHN DE OLIVEIRA / Renaissance Quarterly
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