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US
/əbˈdʒɛkʃən/
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[ UK /ɒbdʒˈɛkʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɒbdʒˈɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
- (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality
- the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent
- the speech act of objecting
How To Use objection In A Sentence
- Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.
- A couple of people raised/voiced objections.
- Both names are unobjectionable, but as the term Caddo has priority by a few pages preference is given to it. Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891
- Antifascist groups have had their objections rejected because they live outside the area. Times, Sunday Times
- When the cupel shows signs of the presence of these metals in objectionable quantity, it is well to repeat the assay and scorify so as to remove them before cupellation. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
- What seemed an easy task becomes complicated by locals' objections and, ultimately, the landman's own crisis of conscience.
- He had moral objections to killing animals for food.
- Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment.
- You can have no objection to that.
- Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment.