Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who resists; one who opposes or withstands.
- noun Specifically, in electricity, a body which offers resistance to the flow of current: said of the substances which transmit current within an electric furnace and become heated because of their resistance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who resists.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
resists going along with others in a common course of action. - noun A person who fights against a government.
- noun electronics A device that bars the passage of an electric charge between two points.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take
- noun someone who offers opposition
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Examples
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Thanks to ALPF, I have learned that another American war resister is seeking asylum in Canada.
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Veterans Against the War and many other large-scale and grassroots organizations to solicit change in a largely unrepresentative democracy, and to allow the voices of the people to ring through the halls of the Capital., former Marine Corps mortarman, Iraq veteran, IRR recall resister, peace activist
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Benjamin Lewis, former Marine Corps mortarman, Iraq veteran, IRR recall resister, peace activist
Indybay newswire Benjamin Lewis and Brandon Neely 2008
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What stuns me, whenever I listen to a 'resister's' story, is how YOUNG these men are...like the 'shiminitism'sp12th-graders choosing jail over killing their neighbor.
even death can be resistance: awol marine commits suicide in nova scotia 2009
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Gee, it's not hard to see what the news outlet's editorial bent is, even on their "hard news" headlines - all you have to do is look to see if they use "resister" or "dodger."
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Israel is the "resister" here, of aggressive acts of war by a terrorist organization based in Lebanon and supported by Syria and Iran.
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Letter writer Ken Bennett (Disgraced U.S. soldier a deserter, not 'resister', Letters, Jan. 21) must have forgotten that Canada would not send a single soldier into combat in Iraq in
Progressive Bloggers 2010
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Letter writer Ken Bennett (Disgraced U.S. soldier a deserter, not 'resister', Letters, Jan. 21) should get his facts straight before adding insult to the injury that Cliff Cornell has endured.
Progressive Bloggers 2010
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Letter writer Ken Bennett (Disgraced U.S. soldier a deserter, not 'resister', Letters,
Progressive Bloggers 2010
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Kimberly Rivera is the first female Iraq War resister to seek refuge in Canada.
vendingmachine commented on the word resister
I initially read this word as re-sister? Like become a sister or a nun again.
January 18, 2022