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sit-in

[ sit-in ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises:
Sixty students staged a sit-in outside the dean's office.
an organized passive protest, especially against racial segregation, in which the demonstrators occupy seats prohibited to them, as in restaurants and other public places.
sit-down strike.

sit-in

a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats in a public place and refuse to move as a protest
See sit-down strike
another term for sit-down strike

often foll by for to deputize (for)
foll by on to take part (in) as a visitor or guest
we sat in on Professor Johnson's seminar
to organize or take part in a sit-in

Origin of sit-in¹

1955–60; noun use of verb phrase sit in (a place); sit ¹, -in ³

The organizers of the protest, who did not have a permit for the sit-in, refused to leave and police began to arrest them in mass.

They tore down some tents of the sit-in and set fire to the others.

Our number of martyrs since the clearing of the sit-in 107.

Outside Rabaa, however, the presence of so many children at the sit-in has caused an uproar.

In fact, as the sit-in has pressed on, the number of children there has seemed to rise.

This day Sit-in-the-kitchen has uncovered his face before his father!'

I 'm tired of having you a sit-in-the-corner, watch-the-other-fellow-dance, male-wallflower proposition!

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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