protester

• protestor

From protest + -er.

• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɛstəɹ/, /ˈpɹoʊtɛstəɹ/

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protester (plural protesters)

1. One who protests, either alone or in a public display of group feeling.

   The protesters thronged Trafalgar Square and sang anti-war songs.

   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.

   • 2019 January 29, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Former Starbucks CEO heckled at book event for weighing independent run: ‘Don’t help elect Trump!’”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”

2. (law) One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.
   • 1997, Charles Evan Stewart, Transnational Contracts, volume 1, page 96:

     The protester must also draw up an affidavit containing the literal reproduction of the bill with its acceptance, endorsements, guarantee by endorsement ("aval"), and anything else contained in the note […]

• tax protester
• demonstrator

• dissenter
• dissident

• potterers, reportest

Learned borrowing from Latin prōtestārī.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.tɛs.te/

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protester

1. to protest; to object

• protestation

• contester
• attester

• “protester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

prōtester

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of prōtestor

protester

1. to claim
   • 1552, François Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre:

     Lucillius, lequel protestoit n'escrire que a ses Tarentins & Consentinois

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• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

protester m

1. indefinite plural of protest

protester

1. imperative of protestere

protester

1. indefinite plural of protest