Definition of Sit-down strike

1. Noun. A strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached.

Exact synonyms: Sit-down
Generic synonyms: Strike, Work Stoppage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sit-down Strike

sistership
sisting
sistra
sistren
sistroid
sistrum
sistrums
sists
sisu
sisyphus
sit
sit-and-go
sit-and-goes
sit-down
sit-down money
sit-down strike (current term)
sit-downs
sit-in
sit-inner
sit-inners
sit-ins
sit-up
sit-up-and-beg
sit-ups
sit around
sit back
sit by
sit dead-red
sit down
sit in

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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