单词	placard
释义	placardplac‧ard /ˈplækɑːd $ -ərd/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINplacard Origin: 1400-1500 French, Old French plaquier ‘to make flat’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES One placard in the crowd read, "Enough is enough!" EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A small group of black dancers picketed the theater for two days, carrying placards and occasionally shouting slogans. At Starbucks' corporate headquarters, the signature mermaid placard toppled into the parking lot below. He turned, like a winning boxer, and raised up both arms, still brandishing the placard. He waved the placard in a wild and thoroughly stupid manner. However, the department says it can do nothing about people with questionable disabilities legitimately obtaining a placard. It voted last week to determine whether doctors are giving placards to the undeserving. The men, members of the gay rights group Outrage, paraded placards in front of the altar before leaving peacefully. This made a placard spring out in the kitchen. word sets WORD SETS► Politics adversarial, adjectiveamnesty, nounanarchism, nounanarchist, nounanticlerical, adjectivearms control, nounbigot, nounbigoted, adjectivebigotry, nounbilateral, adjectiveBlimp, nouncarpetbagger, nouncaucus, nounchancellor, nouncoalition, nounconsensus, nounconstituency, nounconstitutionalism, nounconsumerism, nouncredo, noundemagogue, noundestabilize, verbdétente, noundisorder, noundissent, noundivine right, nounferment, nounfirebrand, noungerrymandering, nounheartland, nounhonours list, nouninterventionist, adjectiveisolationism, nounliberal, adjectiveliberal, nounliberalism, nounlobby, nounlobby, verbMaoism, nounnationalistic, adjective-ocracy, suffix-ocrat, suffixopinion-makers, nounopinion poll, nounpersonality cult, nounpetition, nounphoto opportunity, nounplacard, nounplatform, nounpolitical, adjectivepolitical asylum, nounpolitical geography, nounpolitical machine, nounpopulist, adjectivepork barrel, nounprivilege, nounpropaganda, nounrealpolitik, nounrevolution, nounsoapbox, nounsound bite, nounstump, verbsubversive, adjectivesubvert, verbwar of words, nounwheeler-dealer, nounwheeling and dealing, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► carry · There was also a small contingent of Napster supporters carrying placards in support of the beleaguered music-swapping service.· A small group of black dancers picketed the theater for two days, carrying placards and occasionally shouting slogans.· More than fifty dyslexic children lined the paths carrying placards.· Typically, about a dozen of the demonstrators carried six-foot wooden placards with giant photos of aborted fetuses.· They were carrying placards and posters.· Today the man carrying the placard warning that the end is nigh may well be wearing a white laboratory coat.· They're carrying placards supporting a doctor who practises environmental medicine.· And would they be willing to carry their placards outside polluting workplaces? ► hold · We don't hold up placards telling the audience what to do.· They shout, sing and hold their placards high, demanding the right to a clean, safe, healthy environment. ► wave · He waved the placard in a wild and thoroughly stupid manner.· And then her teenage years will be spent ripping up trees and waving placards outside the U.S. a large notice or advertisement on a piece of card, which is put up or carried in a public place:  a huge placard saying ‘Welcome to Derbyville’
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