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STRIKEBREAKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does strikebreaking mean?
• STRIKEBREAKING (noun)
The noun STRIKEBREAKING has 1 sense:
1. confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers
Familiarity information: STRIKEBREAKING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("strikebreaking" is a kind of...):
confrontation; opposition (the act of hostile groups opposing each other)
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