Protest vs Gherao - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between protest and gherao

is that protest is protest while gherao is (india) a protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc until demands are met.

As a verb gherao is

(india|transitive) to surround for this purpose.

protest

English

(wikipedia protest)

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To make a strong objection.

*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

(label) To affirm (something).

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:I will protest your cowardice.

*1919 , , (The Moon and Sixpence) ,

*:She flashed a smile at me, and, protesting an engagement with her dentist, jauntily walked on.

To object to.

To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Fiercely [they] opposed / My journey strange, with clamorous uproar / Protesting fate supreme.

to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by non-acceptance or non-payment of (a bill or note). This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.

Noun

(en noun)

A formal objection, especially one by a group.

A collective gesture of disapproval: a demonstration.

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Synonyms

* dissent * objection * protestation

Derived terms

* Protestant * protestation * protester * protest march * under protest

Anagrams

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gherao

English

Noun

(wikipedia gherao) (en-noun)

(India) A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met.

* 2002 , Bharti Kirchner, Darjeeling , St. Martin's Press (2002), ISBN 0312286422, page 26:

They had done a gherao and trapped the manager in his office for a whole day.

* 2007 , Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy , Macmillan (2007), ISBN 9780330396110, page 425:

This was an invitation to strike: according to one estimate, there were more than 1,200 gheraos in the first six months of the first UF-LF government.

* 2011 , Arun Sinha, Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar , Viking (2011), ISBN 9780670084593, page 40:

They led us in a mob to the administrative office of the Patna University, blockaded the main entrance and besieged the vice chancellor's office in a gherao

Verb

(en verb)

(India) To surround for this purpose.

* 1996 , Kavery Nambisan, The Scent of Pepper , Penguin (2010), ISBN 9780140264432, page 215:

One day the city magistrate asked the army for help to curb a protest march by women Congress workers who had threatened to gherao the officials in the divisional office.

* 2006 , Shakuntala Devi, Employment of Labour and Rural Development , Sarup & Sons (2006), ISBN 8176257168, page 53:

In reply, the cultivators, apparently now protesting under the banner of the BKU gheraoed the power station.

* 2010 , B. G. Verghese, First Draft: Witness to the Making of Modern India , Tranquebar Press (2010), ISBN 9789380283760, unnumbered page:

Further incensed by the findings of two Citizen's Inquiry Committees that he had set up to probe the earlier police firings in Gaya and Patna, JP now announced a programme that involved picketing the Assembly, gheraoing the residences of MLAs,