counterprotest
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]counterprotest (plural counterprotests)
- A protest held in opposition to another protest.
- Synonym: counterdemonstration
Verb
[edit]counterprotest (third-person singular simple present counterprotests, present participle counterprotesting, simple past and past participle counterprotested)
- (transitive, intransitive) To protest in opposition to another protest.
- 2020 August 26, Elaina Plott, “G.O.P. Women in Arizona Could Decide an Unexpected 2020 Battle”, in The New York Times[1]:
- In April, for example, she attacked a group of health care workers in Colorado who had counterprotested against people calling for an end to stay-at-home orders, suggesting they were “actors playing parts.”