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Definition of Sit-down strike
1. Noun. A strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sit-down Strike
Literary usage of Sit-down strike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. OECD Economics Glossary: English-French = Glossaire de L'économie de L'OCDE by Oecd, SourceOECD (Online service) (2006)
"... staggered strike syn. selective strike qv stay in strike syn. sit-down strike
qv Strike by rota grève tournante [EMO] strike price syn. striking price, ..."
2. Defending the Earth: Abuses of Human Rights and the Environment by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch (Organization, Natural Resources Defense Council (1992)
"NBA activists then began another sit-down strike to protest the fact that none
of the detainees had been produced before a magistrate. ..."
3. Adventure Guide to Trinidad & Tobago by Kathleen O'Donnell, S Harry Pefkaros (2000)
"A sit-down strike in the oil fields was the first spark. It resulted when police
attempted to arrest an oil industry labor leader as he addressed the ..."
4. The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade: A Record of Voyages by William T. Wawn (1893)
"... staged a brief sit-down strike when we were about to move, but gave no further
trouble. At halts, the prisoners rested beside their box, and at night, ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1868)
"cried Tom, exultingly ; " an' now for a sit-down. Strike a light; let's have a
fire at the clearing yonder, and then a pipe and a quiet snooze till daybreak ..."
6. For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Ian Lustick (1988)
"... gain the release of all convicted Jewish terrorists, Ben-Nun threatened to
lead a public sit-down strike in front of the movement's Jerusalem offices. ..."
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