A person who visits a location before the arrival of an important visitor to make the appropriate arrangements.
〈主北美〉先遣人员
Example sentencesExamples
We had - we had an advance man of mine, an Hispanic guy in the state - earlier primary state - I'm not going to tell you which one - who got stopped.
At each stop Hart's advance men made sure of a reception by supporters and local news media, and the media never gave the lie to their pictures of the candidate surrounded by the enthusiastic crowd.
Of course, some advance men might foresee the possibility of bad weather in the Midwest in early November…
Now we cut to a party advance man being followed down the street by 3 cameras, being asked where the leader of the party is.
It turns out that it was one of his advance men.
The advance man would be followed a week later by a crew of four - including ‘Elliot Forbes’ and two ‘nurses’ - to actually manage the film during its run.
I know it was attributed somehow to some ingenious advance man from staff.
And a young advance man beckoned to me, told me to get into his pickup truck, and said that someone wanted to see me.
You have an advance man who attends every dinner who comes and tells you if there are any problems.
The trick isn't very difficult, and the magician - who's been in business for many decades, doesn't even do it very well - but he doesn't have to, because he has the believers already deceived by his advance men.
During 1999 and early 2000, he worked as a volunteer advance man for more than a dozen of the politician's town hall meetings in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
I was there when he was doing his first original entry into politics, he was an advance man for his presidential campaign.
You have an advance man on the ground making sure that everything is running smoothly.
An advance man suggested, ‘Maybe we ought to go to the reception for Leah Rabin.’
Caterers, technicians and advance men were setting up an informal mix of a press conference and Texas style barbecue.
The shopping trip was coordinated by one of the politician's advance men.
Definition of advance man in US English:
advance man
nounədˈvæns mæn
North American
A person who visits a location before the arrival of an important visitor to make the appropriate arrangements.
〈主北美〉先遣人员
Example sentencesExamples
It turns out that it was one of his advance men.
You have an advance man who attends every dinner who comes and tells you if there are any problems.
During 1999 and early 2000, he worked as a volunteer advance man for more than a dozen of the politician's town hall meetings in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
I know it was attributed somehow to some ingenious advance man from staff.
The shopping trip was coordinated by one of the politician's advance men.
Of course, some advance men might foresee the possibility of bad weather in the Midwest in early November…
And a young advance man beckoned to me, told me to get into his pickup truck, and said that someone wanted to see me.
You have an advance man on the ground making sure that everything is running smoothly.
An advance man suggested, ‘Maybe we ought to go to the reception for Leah Rabin.’
Now we cut to a party advance man being followed down the street by 3 cameras, being asked where the leader of the party is.
We had - we had an advance man of mine, an Hispanic guy in the state - earlier primary state - I'm not going to tell you which one - who got stopped.
The trick isn't very difficult, and the magician - who's been in business for many decades, doesn't even do it very well - but he doesn't have to, because he has the believers already deceived by his advance men.
I was there when he was doing his first original entry into politics, he was an advance man for his presidential campaign.
Caterers, technicians and advance men were setting up an informal mix of a press conference and Texas style barbecue.
The advance man would be followed a week later by a crew of four - including ‘Elliot Forbes’ and two ‘nurses’ - to actually manage the film during its run.
At each stop Hart's advance men made sure of a reception by supporters and local news media, and the media never gave the lie to their pictures of the candidate surrounded by the enthusiastic crowd.