sympathetic strike

1. 1.

   a strike in support of other workers who are on strike; a strike not resulting from direct grievances against the workers' employer

   Synonymssympathy strike

   Broaderstrike

Questions about sympathetic strike

What does sympathetic strike mean?

sympathetic strike means "a strike in support of other workers who are on strike; a strike not resulting from direct grievances against the workers' employer".

What is another word for sympathetic strike?

Close synonyms include sympathy strike. 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 sympathetic strike a common word?

sympathetic 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.