hunger strike

1. 1.

   a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest

   Broaderfastpassive resistance

Questions about hunger strike

What does hunger strike mean?

hunger strike means "a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest".

Is hunger strike a common word?

hunger strike is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.