WORK STOPPAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does work stoppage mean? 

• WORK STOPPAGE (noun)
  The noun WORK STOPPAGE has 1 sense:

1. a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions

  Familiarity information: WORK STOPPAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORK STOPPAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

strike; work stoppage

Context example:

the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled

Hypernyms ("work stoppage" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "work stoppage"):

sit-down; sit-down strike (a strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached)

sympathetic strike; sympathy strike (a strike in support of other workers who are on strike; a strike not resulting from direct grievances against the workers' employer)

walkout (a strike in which the workers walk out)

wildcat strike (a strike undertaken by workers without approval from the officials of their union)