Noun
One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration.
One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.
Source: Webster's dictionaryZappa was not a protester or an activist. He was merely a man who used his brain. Piero Scaruffi
I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester. Wesley Snipes
Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side. Janine di Giovanni
The other thing that was fascinating to me, was there was not a single hint of a protester anywhere there during the whole time we were there. Not one guy with a bad placard. Wilbur Ross
Those cameras are not going on the move unless we have a protester. If we had a protester that's the only time they move because they're showing something that in their mind is a bad thing, so then they move. Donald Trump
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying. Erin McKean