(n.) A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
(n.) Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something.
(n.) A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.
(n.) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.
(n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
(v. t.) To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.
(v. t.) To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palestinians with a placard reading ‘Yarmouk camp ... we need you to stop the barrel bombs’ demonstrate in a refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon.
(2) Ten days after the consulate was stormed, thousands of Benghazi residents, some carrying American flags and placards mourning Stevens, stormed the base of Sharia, setting it ablaze.
(3) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
(4) We’re going to have our country back, and protect our second amendment.” After each demagogic slogan, the crowd screamed its approval, waving placards that called themselves the “silent majority for Trump”.
(5) The crowd was a sea of Zanu-PF green and yellow, chanting, punching the air and waving placards that said: "Man of the people."
(6) But perhaps their most provocative piece of electioneering was an A6 election card with a photo of Muslim extremists holding up a placard reading: "Behead those who insult Islam".
(7) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
(8) He was like the man with staring eyes who stumbled up and down Oxford Street with a placard declaring the end of the world to be nigh.
(9) Workers at refineries and power stations in various parts of the UK walked out, some holding placards quoting the words of Gordon Brown: "British jobs for British workers".
(10) One man, a Republican delegate in Cleveland, carried a placard all week around the convention that read: “Ivanka 2024.
(11) Women’s protests against this have featured dancing, singing, miniskirts and placards proclaiming: “My body, my money, my closet, my rules.” Despite the repressive government, which has been responsible for homophobic as well as misogynistic new laws, grassroots resistance is growing .
(12) Migrants not welcome”, say their placards: “Go back to Africa”; “Keep off our worms.” Did a member of the public really see these banners and take offence?
(13) Chanting “God is greatest”, many in Friday’s protest waved placards calling for Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, to be jailed for blasphemy.
(14) There has been a heartening response to the Let Them Stay campaign ... Public opinion is beginning to shift and we think we will get Manus and Nauru closed.” Carrying “Free the refugees” placards and chanting “let them stay”, protesters gathered in Sydney’s Belmore Park before marching through the central business district.
(15) Organisers said a crowd of 35,000, carrying placards in the shape of bright red stop signs, gathered at the Washington monument on a bright but bitterly cold day for the march on the White House.
(16) Several waved placards and the Chinese flag and shouted "Defend the Diaoyu Islands" outside the Japanese consulate general in southern Guangzhou, Xinhua said.
(17) A lot of politicians are very aware of what’s looming, but they won’t dare say it.” On Saturday a campaign group called Youth Fight for Jobs took their tents and placards to Parliament Square in London to protest at what they said was a government “declaration of war on young people”.
(18) Representatives from the technology firms were identified around the table not by their names, but by placards listing their employers.
(19) The placards waiting on empty seats called out “Trump for Hindu Americans” and “Trump Great for India”.
(20) There are pictures of firefighters, policemen, soldiers and members of the public, some grinning and holding up placards celebrating Bin Laden's execution.
Public
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury.
(a.) Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common; notorious; as, public report; public scandal.
(a.) Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public house.
(n.) The general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the American public; also, a particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author's public.
(n.) A public house; an inn.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(4) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(5) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(6) The prospectus revealed he has an agreement with Dorsey to vote his shares, which expires when the company goes public in November.
(7) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(8) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
(9) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(10) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
(11) The last 10 years have seen increasing use of telephone surveys in public health research.
(12) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(13) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(14) Fringe 2009 also welcomes back Aussie standup Jim Jeffries , whose jokes include: "Women to me are like public toilets.
(15) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(16) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(17) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(18) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
(19) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(20) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.