Sideliner

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who stays on the sidelines; a spectator or nonparticipant.

    "The result is more dissent because successful collective action sustains the involvement of old participants while convincing sideliners of the usefulness of protest and ensuring their future participation […]"

  2. 2
    A beekeeper, neither a hobbyist nor a fully-fledged commercial operator, for whom beekeeping is a secondary source of income. US
  3. 3
    One who sidelines or marginalizes something.

Example

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"The result is more dissent because successful collective action sustains the involvement of old participants while convincing sideliners of the usefulness of protest and ensuring their future participation […]"

Etymology

From sideline + -er.

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