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sympathy strike

noun

a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.

sympathy strike

a strike organized in support of another section of workers or a cause and not because of direct grievances Also calledsympathetic strike

First recorded in 1900–05

He was on a sympathy strike, that's what the man in the candy store told us.

He was on a sympathy strike on account of the steel strikers.

He said it wasn't much of a sympathy strike, because nobody had any sympathy for him.

Today, my stomach was very unhappy, and my head was on sympathy strike.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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