placard
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈplækɑrd/
:
cartel
- During the protest, many people held up placards with messages demanding climate action.
- carrying placards
- protest placards
- red placards
Then I walked over to him and held a placard.
- Then I walked over to him and held a placard.
- There are histories of torture preserved all around us, formally, officially, with placards and institutional funding.
- So we made some placards, we organized some protests, we took the placards with us.
- And then he wants a placard made for this CEFC, this Chinese energy company.
- And Julia Gillard, the first female Prime Minister in Australia, had to face placards of ditch the witch.
- There's like this placard, you know, in, in, in lights, right?
- So, you know, Michelle Obama talk, you know, stand with, you know, placards, right.
- Everywhere I went, people with placards run, been run.
Examples
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Whitlow picked up a white placard and turned it around to face them.
Fiction book (2001) -
Yet marchers also carried placards for one of their sponsors, a local brewery.
Academic text (2002) -
In preceding days, the most common placard was Black Lives Matter.
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You can get a handicapped placard... ..and park anywhere you like.
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They raise their voices, their placards, and they march against the government.
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And along the way, on all the lampposts, were placards advertising the concert.
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So we made some placards, we organized some protests, we took the placards with us.
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The language on the protesters' placards was angry and provocative, even if the protesters themselves were not.
Fiction book (2001) -
There are heaps of banners and placards around the edge of the park.
Fiction book (1991) -
On a Sunday afternoon, people stood atop an interstate overpass holding placards spelling out "NO NAZI DUKKKES!"
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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1.0
A board or display giving information to the public
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1.0
A large printed picture used in public to advertise or decorate
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1.3
A large outdoor board that shows advertisements beside roads or on buildings
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1.0
A written message giving information to people
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2.1
A public message put on a board or online
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2.0
A list of performers at a show or event
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2.1
A board in a public place that shows ads or useful information
How Noticeable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Placard comes from French placard, which meant a public 'notice' or 'poster'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the English word place, because you 'place' the notice on a wall, so a placard is a large sign shown in public.