objection

Definition

  • noun: a reason for disagreeing with or opposing something
  • noun: an act of 'objecting'
  • often + 'to'
  • synonyms: answer, antipathy, argument

Examples

  • The prosecutor's 'objection' was sustained. [=the judge agreed that the prosecutor was right to object]

  • She doesn't have any 'objection to' going. = She's made no 'objection to' going.

  • People have raised/voiced a number of 'objections to' the proposed changes.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) because I won't even be able to control the thing. So they're only doing that in the hopes that I won't raise any objections... To this lunacy. Come on. We're ready. What's the intercept plan? We finished attaching the (..)
    2015 The Martian