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Definition of Sit-down
1. Noun. A strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached.
Definition of Sit-down
1. Adjective. Intended to be done while sitting. ¹
2. Noun. An act of sitting down, especially with other people in some form of social exchange. ¹
3. Noun. A sit-in, a protest of civil disobedience by people sitting and refusing to move. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sit-down
Literary usage of Sit-down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"It did not occur to her to sit down, and Will did not give a cheerful interpretation
to this queenly way of receiving him ; but he went on to say what he ..."
2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"All sitting down in him, sit down in the substance, the first and the last, that
changes not, the seed that bruises the serpent's head, which was before he ..."
3. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"First, They that sit down in Adam in the fall, sit down in misery, in ' death,
in darkness and corruption. ' Secondly, They that sit down in the types, ..."
4. The Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1851)
"Kut tlic men marvelled, saying, west, and shall sit down with Abra- | winds and
the sea ; and there was 1-J Hut the children of the kingdom What manner of ..."
5. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground : and he took the seven
loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
""SIT DOWN, SAD SOUL" SIT down, sad soul, and count The moments flying: Come —
tell the sweet amount That's lost by sighing! How many smiles? — a score? ..."
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