DIRECT ACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does direct action mean? 

• DIRECT ACTION (noun)
  The noun DIRECT ACTION has 1 sense:

1. a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands

  Familiarity information: DIRECT ACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIRECT ACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("direct action" is a kind of...):

dissent; objection; protest (the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "direct action"):

civil disobedience (a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination))

job action (a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands)

nonviolence; nonviolent resistance; passive resistance (peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate)

recusancy (refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England)

 Context examples 

The mechanism of its pharmacological actions is not clear, but it apparently can inhibit phosphodiesterases and it may have direct actions on calcium channels.

(Papaverine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Prostaglandin F2 alpha stimulates myometrial activity, relaxes the cervix, inhibits corpus luteal steroidogenesis, and induces luteolysis by direct action on the corpus luteum.

(Dinoprost, NCI Thesaurus)