Usually means: Observers not involved in action.
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  1. bystanders: Merriam-Webster
  2. bystanders: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bystanders: Vocabulary.com
  4. Bystanders, bystander's, bystanders: Wordnik
  5. bystanders: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bystanders: Wiktionary
  7. bystanders: Dictionary.com
  8. bystanders: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. bystanders: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bystander)

▸ noun:  A person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer, witness, or spectator.
▸ Also see bystander


Opposite:
participants, interveners, active observers

Types:
rubberneckers, gawkers, onlookers, spectators, more...

Phrases:
innocent bystanders, No Bystanders, Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders, more...

Adjectives:
innocent, other, several, many, curious, passive, few, mere, interested, white, idle



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Opposite:
participants, interveners, active observers

Types:
rubberneckers, gawkers, onlookers, spectators, more...

Phrases:
innocent bystanders, No Bystanders, Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders, more...

Adjectives:
innocent, other, several, many, curious, passive, few, mere, interested, white, idle




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