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HUNGER STRIKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hunger strike mean?
• HUNGER STRIKE (noun)
The noun HUNGER STRIKE has 1 sense:
1. a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest
Familiarity information: HUNGER STRIKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hunger strike" is a kind of...):
fast; fasting (abstaining from food)
nonviolence; nonviolent resistance; passive resistance (peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate)
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