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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
objector
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
conscientious objector
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
conscientious
▪ Initially a conscientious objector, he joined the army in 1941 and wound up a captain in the Middle East.
▪ After his baptism, Martin advanced to the battlefield as a conscientious objector.
▪ Knowing better than even to apply for conscientious objector, I went about avoiding the draft another way altogether.
▪ An extraordinary character, Kellet was a conscientious objector working in the forest on the lower flanks of the mountain.
▪ The conscientious objectors said they were surprised by the loudness of the crunch.
▪ National service would be introduced, with an alternative for conscientious objectors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After his baptism, Martin advanced to the battlefield as a conscientious objector.
▪ During a stormy meeting at the club, objectors claimed their house values would fall and greenfield views would be obliterated.
▪ For the preliminary requirements with which the applicant or objector must normally comply, see 55.11 and 16.
▪ Initially a conscientious objector, he joined the army in 1941 and wound up a captain in the Middle East.
▪ Knowing better than even to apply for conscientious objector, I went about avoiding the draft another way altogether.
▪ She was outraged, guessing that the objectors had carried on their fight after her departure from lunch on Monday.
▪ The objectors really should reflect more on the alternatives.
▪ The conscientious objectors said they were surprised by the loudness of the crunch.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Objector

Objector \Ob*ject"or\, n. [L., an accuser.] One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
objector

n. A person who objects to something.

WordNet
objector

n. a person who dissents from some established policy [syn: dissenter, dissident, protester, contestant]

Wikipedia
Objector (TV play)

Objector is a 1966 TV play by Tony Morphett broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

It was part of the Australian Playhouse series.

Usage examples of "objector".

William Breen Markland, the odd one, named for their Irish grandfather, and like that taciturn, obdurate old man always a nonconformist, an objector, full of booklore, aloof and stiffened with stubborn opinions.

Objector to the Syllogism need not be a Materialist, but assuming that he is one, he is as much entitled to the hypothesis that Matter thinks as a Theist is to his hypothesis that it does not.

Firmum Picenum promised money, the Marrucini of northern Adriatic Samnium threatened to strip Marrucine objectors of their property, and hundreds of rich Italian knights subsidized the equipping of troops.

And, suddenly, Phineas Babbitt, realizing that his son, Leander, was twenty-five years old and, therefore, within the limits of the draft age, became once more an ardent, if a little more careful, conscientious objector.

William Breen Markland, the odd one, named for their Irish grandfather, and like that taciturn, obdurate old man always a nonconformist, an objector, full of booklore, aloof and stiffened with stubborn opinions.

John in telling the story of the anointing at Bethany says that he was a thief, but John also makes him the sole objector to the waste of the ointment.

Having failed to get quickly accepted into medical school, Brandt belatedly declared himself a conscientious objector and was drafted directly into the Medical Corps.

Yet all these objectors felt the need of some sort of organization among the farmers, very much as the trade-unionist and the socialist, though widely divergent in program, agree that the workers must unite in order to better their condition.

A march on Washington was planned for draft objectors throughout the country.

One has only to compare these figures with, for instance, the number of conscientious objectors to see how vast is the strength of traditional loyalties compared with new ones.

Fifteen minutes later Herbie Goldfarb, pacifist, conscientious objector, VISTA volunteer, walked out of there like a young man who had just lost his virginity, the gun and a box of bullets tucked down snug in his pack among the corned beef hash and Spam cans, peanut butter, Bunny bread, and beer.

Even the most fervent and naive conscientious objector knew the answer to that one.

For some moments he had been muttering to himself, and it had been plain that he was not in sympathy with the conscientious objector.

Though only fourteen at this time, a weedy-lanky boy with a cracking voice, Patrick was an admirer of the war-protesting Berrigan priest-brothers and warned he'd run away to Canada as a conscientious objector if necessary.

With sudden clarity he realized that he was annoyed with the role assigned to him, that of the privileged noncombatant, the excused conscientious objector.