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sit-down

[sit-doun]
–adjective
1. done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
2. (of a meal or food) served to or intended for persons seated at a table: a sit-down dinner.
–noun
3. Informal. a period or instance of sitting, as to relax, talk, or the like: They had a profitable sit-down together.
4. sit-down strike.
5. a protest demonstration whereby participants refuse to move from a public place.
6. Informal. a meal, esp. a dinner, served to persons who are seated at a table.

Origin:
1830–40; adj. and n. use of v. phrase sit down

sit-down strike

–noun
a strike during which workers occupy their place of employment and refuse to work or allow others to work until the strike is settled.
Also called sit-down, sit-in.


Origin:
1930–35, Americanism
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