protesterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From protest +‎ -er.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtestəɹ/, /ˈpɹoʊtestəɹ/

名詞

protester (複数形 protesters)

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

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

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 […]

下位語

• tax protester
• demonstrator

参考

• dissenter
• dissident

アナグラム

• potterers, reportest

Latin

動詞

prōtester

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of prōtestor