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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
participant
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an active participant
▪ The student must be an active participant in the learning process.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
▪ A murder victim is not a stage-prop in the drama of his death but an active participant.
▪ Do you consider yourself an active participant in the political world?
▪ Nor, however, did he want to be an active participant.
▪ Be an active participant in the work of the schools.
▪ This section too starts with a premise, which is that individual pupils are active participants in their own education.
▪ Not only had Oregon State lost 13 straight, but the Bruins once again were active participants in their own demise.
▪ Jenks believed international organizations were not mere conference secretariats, but should be active participants in shaping the postwar world.
individual
▪ The exact relationship between these objectives and reducing crime will depend on the specification of the programme and on the individual participant.
▪ All swimmers will receive a certificate recording their time and individual participants completing the distance will also get a medal.
▪ There is little assurance as to how individual participants or the overall market will behave.
other
▪ Did they learn from the professors or from the other participants?
▪ In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come, the estate agent from Sudbury.
▪ And furthermore, 15 other energetic male participants were accessories before the fact.
▪ These entrepreneurs will communicate to the other market participants the market information which these other participants are themselves unable to obtain.
▪ And why, after all the other chief participants in the affair had had their say, should Mountbatten be denied his?
▪ Third party treaty claims are not limited to States; other participants in the international arena may make similar claims.
▪ However, even these success stories put forward by some participants were quickly followed by specific criticisms from other participants.
■ NOUN
conference
▪ State-owned television used a film of the episode to accuse conference participants of engaging in decadent activity.
▪ At a small cocktail party for conference participants, we avoid one another until it starts to feel conspicuous.
▪ The Conference participants unanimously passed a resolution that the group's work should continue.
▪ Gaidar, although summoned by the conference participants, did not attend.
market
▪ This denies market participants the opportunity to argue that a particular merger or dominant firm practice does offer efficiency gains.
▪ Most market participants were waiting for January before making new moves.
▪ Thus, if interest rates are expected to fall, market participants will be unwilling to sell bills outright to the Bank.
▪ These entrepreneurs will communicate to the other market participants the market information which these other participants are themselves unable to obtain.
▪ This theory states that various market participants have distinct maturity preferences.
▪ Other market participants are able to act in a dual capacity.
▪ This process of bringing the plans of market participants into dovetailing patterns is, as we have seen, competitive.
observation
▪ These effects are not erased by using female-identified participant observation, as well as male-identified ratings scales.
▪ The research will take the form of participant observation with all three of us acting as part-time teachers in the schools.
▪ The method of study finally chosen was that of participant observation of a community for an eventual period of twenty months.
▪ Other ethnographic techniques Ethnographic research is not carried out only by means of participant observation and unstructured interviewing.
▪ The research also uses other methodological approaches including participant observation.
▪ What would be the moral standing of a covert participant observation study of Death Row?
observer
▪ However, as noted earlier, the advocated stance of the participant observer is very much that of the stranger.
▪ Nevertheless there are initial considerations that all participant observers make to some extent prior to entering and during fieldwork.
▪ It is not unusual, for example, to find participant observers using interviews.
▪ Furthermore, it is difficult for the participant observer not to exert some influence on the events that are being observed.
▪ The participant observer in such a naturalistic framework really only observes.
■ VERB
allow
▪ And it is the thematic meanings, of course, that allow the participants to enter fantasy or unfamiliar contexts.
▪ The program allows participants to maintain jobs by giving them two hours of paid time off a day.
▪ It allows participants to remain free and responsible for their action.
▪ Many companies allow plan participants to buy shares once a month.
become
▪ Using the methods offered by the new technical media, he must become a self-aware participant in the total apparatus of production.
▪ Individuals become participants in the political process, but they do not give up their orientations as subjects or as parochials.
▪ In the dream he became a participant, as a prisoner of a revolutionary tribunal whose judges included Marat and Robespierre.
▪ Clients sign contracts to become participants and agree to adhere to a rigorous schedule.
▪ If this situation epitomizes the postmodern world, then theologians may hope once again to become serious participants in the cultural conversation.
▪ Thus the writer became a participant in the direct market process of the sale of his work.
▪ The machine, the mere product of human labor, became an independent participant in the labor process.
▪ The spectators, however, become interactive participants in the drama.
encourage
▪ It also encourages assembly participants to submit samples of video footage on social movements in their respective countries.
▪ The organisers hope to encourage participants to create networks for the exchange of information on the development and use of alternative media.
provide
▪ Such an analysis is thus provided by participants not only for each other but for analysts too.
▪ Business, government, and academia must work together and provide each participant with one-on-one contact and support.
▪ Major competitions are held annually and provide sport for the participants and a colourful spectacle for the landlubber.
▪ Each activity is provided free to the participant in return for raising a minimum target sum in sponsorship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At the end of the conference, all the participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire.
▪ Reyes is an active participant in the protest movement.
▪ This summer's children's art program had 14 participants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He is free to consider himself first and foremost a participant in the nationally important business of the Bundestag.
▪ In college they are expected to take more advanced course work than the typical community college participant.
▪ It also demonstrated how volatile the presidential race is, with change an ever-present participant.
▪ Shy participants are less inhibited about expressing themselves in this medium.
▪ The organisers hope to encourage participants to create networks for the exchange of information on the development and use of alternative media.
▪ There is a £10 entry fee and each participant should raise £50 in sponsorship in order to take part.
▪ Though Mainly Mozart participants stay in donated hotel rooms or condos, the atmosphere is chummy.
▪ Thus, if interest rates are expected to fall, market participants will be unwilling to sell bills outright to the Bank.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Participant

Participant \Par*tic"i*pant\, a. [L. participans, p. pr. of participare: cf. F. participant. See Participate.] Sharing; participating; having a share or part.
--Bacon.

Participant

Participant \Par*tic"i*pant\, n. A participator; a partaker.

Participants in their . . . mysterious rites.
--Bp. Warburton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
participant

1540s, from Latin participantem (nominative participans), present participle of participare "to share in, partake of," from particeps "sharing, partaking" (see participation).

participant

1560s, from Middle French participant, from Latin participantem (nominative participans), present participle of participare "to share in, partake of" from particeps "sharing, partaking" (see participation).

Wiktionary
participant

a. Sharing; participating; having a share of part. n. One who participates.

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WordNet
participant

  1. n. someone who takes part in an activity

  2. a person who participates in or is skilled at some game [syn: player]

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Usage examples of "participant".

AFFM ninety-nine Will have more accredited participants than any of its predecessors since the event moved to Santa Monica.

After things began to settle into shape at Millen, they seemed to believe that they were in such ascendancy as to numbers and organization that they could put into execution their schemes of vengeance against those of us who had been active participants in the execution of their confederates at Andersonville.

Open Innovation companies regard the VC community, and the start-ups the community funds, as mutualistic participants in a complex ecosystem of firms that create, recombine, compete, imitate, and interact with each other.

It was there that he recruited participants for his amateur pornographic videos, there that he encouraged his wife to expand her list of clients, there that he would listen on the intercom system while she made love, or peep through the holes he had cut in the doors to watch, and there, too, that he would indulge his passion for perverted sexuality.

Participants who are enthusiastic about the experiment are the most successful in these precognition studies.

They will learn to embrace the fact that clients can be active, knowledgeable participants in their own psychotherapeutic endeavors.

In quintain the participants used lances to charge at a target attached to an arm.

Melbai had already warned me of the one most sacrosanct rule of the Bacchic societies: that no participant ever disclose to the uninvited what occurred inside the temple doors.

Does he care to say what is unpersuasive about the evidence adduced by so many historians and participants, from the hawkish Bundy and Haldeman to the more skeptical Clark Clifford?

The ballroom now presented a babel of noise as countless conversations and group discussions proceeded, some heatedly, with participants raising voices.

Quintus had left him for adventures in the vineyards, but some nagging shred of conscience told Sabinus that he should remain an observer at the bacchanal, not a participant.

Parisian purses was surely naught by the side of this--to have to discuss with the Cavals, the Machaults and other professionals the case, almost unprecedented, in which they were participants.

His deconstructionist accounts of science began with his experience as a post-doctoral anthropologist, when he spent a year as a partially participant observer in a Californian laboratory working on the identification and isolation of a neurohormone.

As equal participants in the great dialog, they simply do not have such a function.

The pioneers of all three species were dedicated to the idea that a stable interspecies culture could be created without significantly reengineering the brains and endocrinological systems of its participants.