sit-down strike

1. 1.

   a strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached

   Synonymssit-down

   Broaderstrike

Questions about sit-down strike

What does sit-down strike mean?

sit-down strike means "a strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached".

What is another word for sit-down strike?

Close synonyms include sit-down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sit-down strike a common word?

sit-down 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.