Protester vs Boycott - What's the difference?
protester | boycott |
One who protests, either singly or in a public display of group feeling.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (legal) One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.
To abstain, either as an individual or group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.
As a noun protester
is one who protests, either singly or in a public display of group feeling.As a proper noun boycott is
(a village name).protester
English
Alternative forms
* protestorNoun
(en noun)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=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.}}