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

  • Thanks to ALPF, I have learned that another American war resister is seeking asylum in Canada.

    in no way threatening to me 2005

  • 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

    The World Can't Wait! 2008

  • Benjamin Lewis, former Marine Corps mortarman, Iraq veteran, IRR recall resister, peace activist

    Indybay newswire Benjamin Lewis and Brandon Neely 2008

  • 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

  • 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."

    war resisters: recent media wrap-up 2008

  • Israel is the "resister" here, of aggressive acts of war by a terrorist organization based in Lebanon and supported by Syria and Iran.

    don't tell me to calm down 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • Letter writer Ken Bennett (Disgraced U.S. soldier a deserter, not 'resister', Letters,

    Progressive Bloggers 2010

  • Kimberly Rivera is the first female Iraq War resister to seek refuge in Canada.

    2009 April : Law is Cool 2009

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  • I initially read this word as re-sister? Like become a sister or a nun again.

    January 18, 2022