Protestors - English meaning

noun

A person who expresses dissatisfaction or annoyance about something.

Usage examples:

It's also long past time for the chronic complainers to stop spreading discontent

noun

A participant in a public protest meeting or march.

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Troops opened fire on crowds of demonstrators

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A person who marches or stands with a group of people to show that they disagree with or support something or someone

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Several demonstrators were arrested when they sat down in the middle of broadway.

noun

A person or thing that interrupts an event, activity, or process by causing a disturbance or problem.

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The film follows his evolution from hollywood star to political disruptor

noun

A person or thing that prevents something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected

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Endocrine/hormone disruptors, if customers talk to everybody else they get the status quo. we're th…

noun

A person who dissents.

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After all, the first amendment aims to protect the outsider, the dissenter, the protester: those wi…

noun

Someone who dissents

adjective

In opposition to a majority or official opinion.

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Dissentient voices were castigated as ‘hopeless bureaucrats’

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A person who opposes a majority or official opinion.

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It must think it really did win the last state election, even though the libs polled more votes and…

noun

A person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state.

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A dissident who had been jailed by a military regime

adjective

In opposition to official policy.

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The measure was supported by dissident tories

noun

A person who strongly disagrees with and publicly criticizes a government or the official rulings of a group or organization

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Union dissidents have challenged the leadership of the current president., dissident views

noun

A person, especially a soldier or sailor, who rebels or refuses to obey the orders of a person in authority.

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Those who resisted were denounced as mutineers and treated accordingly

noun

Someone who takes part in a mutiny

noun

A member of a protestant church which dissents from the established church of england.

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Originally a nonconformist, he was later converted to anglo-catholicism

adjective

Relating to nonconformists or their principles and practices.

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Teetotalism was a largely nonconformist movement

noun

A person who does not live and think according to accepted customs and standards

noun

A person who expresses opposition to or disagreement with something.

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Objectors claim the motorway will damage the environment

noun

Someone who competes with or opposes another in a contest, game, or argument.

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He beat his republican opponent by a landslide margin

noun

A person who disagrees with something and speaks against it or tries to change it

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Opponents of the project fear it will attract undesirables., his chief opponent in the november ele…

noun

A person or group of people who stand outside a workplace or other venue as a protest or to try to persuade others not to enter during a strike.

Usage examples:

Forty pickets were arrested

verb

Act as a picket outside (a workplace or other venue).

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Strikers picketed the newspaper's main building

verb

A wooden strip forming part of a fence

noun

An employee on strike.

Usage examples:

The manager was anxious to have talks with the strikers and discuss their demands

noun

A person, esp. a member of a labor union, who refuses to work until a satisfactory agreement with the employer has been reached

noun

A worker who refuses to do their job because they are not satisfied with their pay, working conditions, etc.

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Police dispersed a crowd of 300 strikers and supporters.