strikebreak
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strikebreak (third-person singular simple present strikebreaks, present participle strikebreaking, simple past strikebroke, past participle strikebroken)
- To break a strike; to work for a business where the union members are on strike.
- 1996, George E. Hopkins, Flying the Line, page 134:
- When the first three decided to strikebreak, Baker knew he could use them as a nucleus to train other crews.
- 1999, David Rapaport, No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike against the Harris Government in Ontario, page 110:
- OPSEU urged its members not to strikebreak.
- 2012, Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell, Liberation: Diaries, page 347:
- I told him we aren't about to strikebreak—there are too many spies around.
- 2014, Cliff Brown, Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market:
- Third, the migration of foreign-born white workers into local labor markets does not appear to have significantly increased pressures for African Americans to strikebreak.
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