strike work
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strike work
verb strikes work · striking work · struck work · stricken work
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To go on strike.
About nine hundred bakers, it is said, struck work on Saturday night, in consequence of their wages not being raised.
Similar: strike
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To stop working (for a break, at the end of the work day, etc.).
1848, Charles Dickens, letter dated 28 November, 1848 in Georgina Hogarth and Mamie Dickens (eds.), The Letters of Charles Dickens, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, p. 203,
Come down on Friday. There is a train leaves London Bridge at two—gets here at four. By that time I shall be ready to strike
Similar: quit, call it a quits, pack it in
- To stop functioning. 1845, Robert Browning, letter dated 28 January, 1845 in The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846, New York: Harper, 1899, p. 9, Your books lie on my table here, at arm’s length from me, in this old room where I sit all day: and when my head aches or wanders or strikes
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