strike pay

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   money paid to strikers from union funds

   Broaderwage

Questions about strike pay

What does strike pay mean?

strike pay means "money paid to strikers from union funds".

Is strike pay a common word?

strike pay 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.