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participant observer

participant observer noun: one doing participant observation.

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
alternative formparticipant-observer

Questions about participant observer

What does participant observer mean?
Participant observer means one doing participant observation.
What part of speech is participant observer?
Participant observer is a noun.
What is the plural of participant observer?
The plural of participant observer is participant observers.

Words near participant observer in the dictionary

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

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