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sideliners

sideliners is the plural of sideliner.

Meaning of sideliner

Noun

sideliner (plural sideliners)

  1. One who stays on the sidelines; a spectator or nonparticipant.
    • The result is more dissent because successful collective action sustains the involvement of old participants while convincing sideliners of the usefulness of protest and ensuring their future participation […]1936, American Sociological Review, volume 61, page 135
  2. (US) A beekeeper, neither a hobbyist nor a fully-fledged commercial operator, for whom beekeeping is a secondary source of income.
  3. One who sidelines or marginalizes something.

Questions about sideliners

What is sideliners the plural of?
Sideliners is the plural of sideliner.

Words near sideliners in the dictionary

  1. sideline cuts
  2. sideline reporter
  3. sideline reporters
  4. sidelined
  5. sideliner
  6. sideliners
  7. sidelines
  8. sideling
  9. sidelings
  10. sidelining
  11. sidelinings

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