work-stoppage
work stoppage
noun
the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.
Origin:
1940–45
1940–45
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| work stoppage | |
noun | |
| a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions; "the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled" [syn: strike] |
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Work-stoppage
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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