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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
protester
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a peace campaigner/protester/activist
▪ Several peace campaigners were arrested at the demonstration.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
anti
▪ The commitment of the anti-pipeline protesters does not in itself make their case any more or less valid.
▪ About 50 anti-Estrada protesters, members of Plunder Watch, outnumbered his supporters.
■ NOUN
student
▪ They claimed to be victims of political persecution following the military crackdown on student protesters.
▪ They will find that student protesters are extremely discriminating about what they protest against.
▪ He remembers stepping over student protesters to get to class.
▪ Also capitulating to the student protesters, television director-general Pavel Pisarev resigned on July 5.
▪ In early December student protesters were joined by large numbers of academics and civil servants.
■ VERB
arrest
▪ Police arrested a further ten protesters after detaining 130 in a noisy demonstration in central Paris on Sunday.
▪ At one point they arrested 240 protesters for sitting in a city square then immediately left.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Thousands of protesters took to the streets to show their anger at the government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Gibbs says a confrontation between protesters and politicians over the Stamp Act took place on the front porch.
▪ Disappointed protesters complained that the government had reformed the tax just to spite them.
▪ Many of these protesters will be outside agitators, even convention delegates, from anti-abortion strongholds like Texas and Florida.
▪ The idea, state officials insist, was merely to turn the protesters around with a show of force.
▪ The two-minute video shows the protesters casually entering the office before linking arms through the tubes.
▪ This whole extravaganza is demeaning, debasing and deeply damaging to what should be serious political discourse, the protesters complain.
▪ Troops were deployed to disperse the protesters, several of whom were charged with assault.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protester

Protester \Pro*test"er\, n.

  1. One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration.
    --Shak.

  2. (Law) One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
protester

also protestor, 1540s, "one who makes solemn affirmation;" agent noun from protest (v.). From 1960 as "demonstrator, public opponent of the established order."

Wiktionary
protester

n. One who protests, either singly or in a public display of group feeling.

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WordNet
protester

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

  2. someone who participates in a public display of group feeling [syn: demonstrator]

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Usage examples of "protester".

They raced across the lawn and the Japanese were momentarily frozen as the birthday guests reached the fence and banged their brooms and brollies against the railings, the occasional implement poking through to prod a startled protester.

The protesters had a good fire going this time, made out of pulled-up park benches, trash brought along for the purpose, and whatever else burnable they might find.

Reporters were out interviewing the protesters, feeding the hungry broadband predigested opinion and some visuals.

Simes, not just the protesters in the center, but all those who had supported Abel Veritt and Rimon.

Otherwise, Sam Castilla is flying to Santa Fe to confront those protesters head-on.

Elliot Rose, in Cases of Conscience, published in 1975, the year in which the Vietnam War ended, drew a parallel between Catholics who refused to conform in the reign of Elizabeth and James I, and protesters against the Vietnam War.

There it paused, briefly, waiting for federal police to come and clear away the eight or nine thousand Oklahoman protesters who put their own mortal bodies between Texas and harm.

The protesters were strongly supported by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the revered, infallible spiritual leader and guide to millions of Shiites in Iraq.

The truth was, the Brigadiers really just wanted to be in the favorable position enjoyed by those they were opposing, which is usually the case of protesters.

He told me he is documenting cases of torture of protesters by police in the town where Santilldn and Barrios died.

The Evans-Tindale logo was still in place, though the image behind it had changed: the screen was filled with protesters, all waving placards that called for the U.

American public was that juries became more reluctant to convict antiwar protesters, and local judges too were treating them differently.

Not long before that, the National Guard and National Police had opened fire on a crowd of protesters in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral and killed twenty-four people.

I was summoned to an emergency meeting about the shooting to death of four antiwar protesters at Kent State University by members of the Ohio National Guard.

In the long-haired war protesters Milton saw his own shaggy, condemnatory son.