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Narrator: Today's word is "Objection" — noun, pronounced /əbˈdʒekʃn/, with the stress on "jec".
Narrator: An objection is a statement or feeling that you disagree with or oppose something.
Narrator: In plain English, a reason to say no.
Narrator: It comes from Latin obicere, to throw against.
Narrator: A common collocation is "raise an objection", which describes formally disagreeing.
Narrator: It differs from "complaint", because an objection opposes a plan before it happens.
Narrator: In a second sense, "Objection!" is what lawyers say in court dramas.
Narrator: Law, planning, sales and debate rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: an objection says I disagree.
Speaker A: Why is the new supermarket delayed?
Speaker B: Hundreds of OBJECTIONS! From Latin obicere.
Speaker A: Planning ones?
Speaker B: About traffic.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Any objections?", meetings. "Objection sustained", court. "Handle sales objections", business.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Say "objection to something", not "objection against".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Protest is its cousin, complaint its twin, and dissent an alternative — yet objection keeps its formal charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "objection" in AI prompts — useful for sales training and planning.
Speaker A: How for sales?
Speaker B: Handling.
Prompt: List common sales objections for software and a response to each.
Speaker A: And planning?
Speaker B: Letters.
Prompt: Draft a polite planning objection about traffic on our street.
Speaker A: Could it help meetings?
Speaker B: Yes, for decisions.
Prompt: Record any objections raised in these minutes.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Debate.
Prompt: Anticipate objections to my essay argument and answer them.
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