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objector

noun/əbˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/

What It Means

A person who objects to something.

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Objector in Context

“The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter.”

— 1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281

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Partly from Latin obiector and partly from object + -or.

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