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go-slow

[goh-sloh]

go-slow

[goh-sloh]
noun Chiefly British.
a work slowdown, as in sympathy with strikers or as a protest.

Origin:
1925–30
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go-slow
 
n
1.  (Brit) US and Canadian equivalent: slowdown
 a.  a deliberate slackening of the rate of production by organized labour as a tactic in industrial conflict
 b.  (as modifier): go-slow tactics
 
vb
2.  (intr) to work deliberately slowly as a tactic in industrial conflict

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