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participant-observer

participant-observer is the alternative form of participant observer.

Meaning of participant observer

Noun

participant observer (plural participant observers)

  1. One doing participant observation.
    • Between 1988 and 1992, I acted as a participant observer at over two hundred discos, clubs and raves and attended at least thirty live gigs for comparative purposes.1995, Sarah Thornton, Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital, Wiley, →ISBN, page 106

Forms of participant-observer

pluralparticipant-observers

Questions about participant-observer

What is participant-observer the alternative form of?
Participant-observer is the alternative form of participant observer.

Words near participant-observer in the dictionary

  1. participant
  2. participant evolution
  3. participant observation
  4. participant observer
  5. participant observers
  6. participant-observer
  7. participant-observers
  8. participantly
  9. participants
  10. participate
  11. participated

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