leader
a person who watches something closely to see how it develops:
We have long been followers of the mining finance company whose shares have recently soared to 61p.
close/keen followersIf you are one of the many investors who has bought shares in the company, no doubt you've become a keen follower of the copper price.

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follower
A number of times he had lost followers due to political miscalculation by acting against the wishes of his clients.
After a first chapter that sets the stage, the subsequent ones gradually introduce the reader into the world of the caudillos' followers.
If it had some followers in the village, they marched to the main square to claim their right to hold elections on the main square.
Many of them were zadikim, spiritual leaders, with responsibility for the masses of their followers.
Part of the resources acquired by rulers are distributed to followers in exchange for political loyality and support.
After addressing a few preaching words to the audience, he slowly steps towards the glaring light along with numerous followers.
Peronist brokers did not take their followers to the stores nor could control their actions.
While the breadth of the examples on which he draws puts many historians to shame, his thesis will find few followers among historians.
The use of a driven shield effectively reduced the capacity of the long cables leading to the cathode followers t o a low value.
Based on their experiences, followers believe that the shaykh's poetry is not created in time but is a materialized copy of a timeless original.
One is religious tolerance, measured by the respondent's willingness to accept the followers of other religions as neighbors, and the other is approval of divorce.
He must combine moral authority over his fellow tribesmen with the ability to deliver benefits and services to his followers.
The follower's orientation trajectories in the presence and the absence of the wind disturbance are fairly close, except for the roll angle.
My experience is that club loyalty pays too well; too many goodies are directed toward intellectual followers.
Political leadership had become bound up with the ability to manipulate resources along the trade routes and alternately to protect and exploit one's followers.
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