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Definition of Direct action
1. Noun. A protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands.
Specialized synonyms: Civil Disobedience, Job Action, Nonviolence, Nonviolent Resistance, Passive Resistance, Recusancy
Definition of Direct action
1. Noun. A form of political activism, in which participants act directly, ignoring established political procedures. This is often (but not always) accomplished by means of strikes, workplace occupations, sabotage, sit-ins, squatting, revolutionary/guerrilla warfare, demonstrations, vandalism or graffiti. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Direct Action
Literary usage of Direct action
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Labor Unions by Helen Marot (1914)
"CHAPTER XX direct action Is the antithesis of political action but not necessarily
opposed to it—Comparative value as a labor weapon—Object of direct ..."
2. American Syndicalism: The I. W. W. by John Graham Brooks (1913)
"Behind this belief is much reasoned explanation meant to justify "direct action."
Capitalism from the beginning has known and practiced every form of ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1887)
"... as well Ы done in the proper circuit court, if there are no special circumstances
in the casa making direct action by said court necessary or expedient. ..."
4. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)
"Since in practice language responses may be said to be related to direct action
in four ways, namely, they may precede, accompany, follow, or substitute for ..."
5. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1913)
"The principle of direct action of the excited nervous system on the body,
independently of the will and in part of habit—Change of colour in the ..."
6. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1919)
"direct action or X-RAYS ON TRANSPLANTABLE CANCERS OF MICE.* BY ELSA HILL, JOHNJ.
MORTON, MD, AND WILLIAM D. WITHERBEE, MD (From the Laboratories of The ..."
7. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1891)
"... of natural selection—Supposed effects of disuse among wild animals—Difficulty
as to co-adaptation of parts by variation and selection—direct action ..."
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