n.
1.a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
2.an associate who provides assistance
3.a person with whom you are acquainted
4.a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
5.a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
Idiom of the Day
get (something) out of the way
to take care of some business, to do or finish something
We got our work out of the way and began to plan for the weekend.