sympathy 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

   Synonymssympathetic strike

   Broaderstrike

Questions about sympathy strike

What does sympathy strike mean?

sympathy 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 sympathy strike?

Close synonyms include sympathetic 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 sympathy strike a common word?

sympathy 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.