to protest the injustice
- phrasal verb
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protestar la injusticia
- Students organized a rally to protest the injustice of the school's unfair policies regarding disciplinary actions.
Examples
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The citizens gathered to protest the injustice of the new law that discriminated against the poor.
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Trey had used his up yesterday, protesting the injustice imposed on him by Lige Connors's greed and Sheriff Bracken's dereliction of duty.
Fiction book (1997) -
Many people took to the streets to protest the injustice in the legal system that favored the wealthy.
Synonyms
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3.2
To show strong disagreement in public, often by joining a march or strike
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3.6
To show in public that you strongly disagree with something
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3.7
To try to make things fair and protect people's rights
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3.7
Speak or act to support fairness when it is threatened
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4.1
Join a public protest to call for fair treatment
To express a complaint or concern, often publicly
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently composed from 'protest' (to voice public objection) and 'injustice' (unfair treatment), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer 'to publicly show opposition to unfair treatment'. The determiner 'the' is grammatically predictable and the verb + noun composition is cross-linguistically common, supporting immediate comprehension.
Etymology
Protest the injustice shows a simple scene: people gather with signs and loud voices to oppose something unfair. Here, protest is the public act of speaking out and injustice is the unfair treatment, so the phrase means 'to publicly show opposition to unfair treatment'.