BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Strike
- a concerted refusal to work by employees, with the goal of improving wages or employment conditions, voicing a grievance, making a protest, or supporting other workers in such an endeavor. A strike is a form of industrial action.
Wiktionary Definition for: Strike
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- Ex:''Please '''strike''' the last sentence.''
- To hit.
- Ex:'''''Strike''' the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose.''
- To stop working to achieve better working conditions.
- Ex:''The workers '''struck''' for a week before the new contract went through.''
- obsolete To surrender (''strike one's colors'')
- To impress, seem or appear.
- Ex:''Golf has always '''struck''' me as a waste of time.''
- To manufacture by stamping etc
- Ex:''We will '''strike''' a medal in your honour
- # nautical To haul down, or lower a mast, a flag or cargo etc
- baseball a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or having a pitch pass over home plate at a height between a batter's shoulders and knees, or hitting a ball into foul territory without being caught
- (''bowling'') the act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame
- a work stoppage
- a blow or application of physical force against something
- finance In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- Ex:'''Quotations'''
- Ex:*'''1882''': The sum is also used for the quarter, and the '''strike''' for the bushel. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, ''A History of Agriculture and Prices in England'', Volume 4, p. 207.
- # cricket the status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at
Additional Resources
- Actors Union Seeks Strike Vote After Federal Mediation Fails
- After two days of mediated talks failed, the Screen Actors Guild SAG is asking members to approve a strike authorization. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers AMPTP, representing some 350 studios and production companies, and the actors guild met face-to-face this past week for the first time...
- External links 2008-11-23
- Postal Union Offers Deal to Avert Strike
- By Stefano AmbrogiLONDON (Reuters UK) - Union leaders representing workers at Royal Mail have offered management a last-ditch deal to avert a national strike that would cripple deliveries across the country. The Communication Workers Union CWU said it had written to Royal Mail Managing Director Mark Higson asking him to...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Fujitsu is notified of strike action
- Angelica Mari, Computing , Friday 6 November 2009 at 10:37:00 First ever national strike in the UK IT sector to take place next week Workers union Unite has served notice of a three-day strike on Fujitsu following a vote...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Health benefits key issue in phone strike. (NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, Pacific Telesis)
- Health Benefits Key Issue In Phone Strike Health insurance benefits are the primary point of contention in the strike against three `Baby Bell' telephone companies. Some 160,000 workers went on strike Aug. 6 against NYNEX, Bell Atlantic and PacifiHealth Benefits Key Issue...
- Research articles 1989-08-14
- JORDAN: CHECHEN GROUPS CARRY OUT HUNGER STRIKE OVER CHECHEN QUESTION.(urging European Parliament to pressure Russia)(Brief Article)
- According to "Jordan Times", Chechen groups in Jordan will carry out a hunger strike starting Monday. The strike is in solidarity with some European Parliament members who will be holding a strike at the same time. The parliamentarians' s According to "Jordan Times", Chechen...
- Research articles 2002-04-10
- Strike averted! Union at U.K. Nissan plant calls off strike.(Automotive Briefs)(Brief Article)
- Unionized workers at a Nissan plant in the U.K have called off plans to strike over the relocation of its purchasing department (see PURCHASING, Feb. 5, 2004, page 14). The strike plan was revealed in December after Nissan failed to consult with me Unionized...
- Research articles 2004-03-04
- TV Strike Recedes as Strike Threat at the BBC Grows.
- LONDON, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- As the threat of further strike action at ITV recedes, the spectre of strike action at the BBC grows. Following a meeting with the BBC the joint unions Amicus, BECTU and the NUJ plan to ballot their members...
- Research articles 2005-04-13
- TCI installers vote to strike in Bay area. (strike authorization vote taken by Tele-Communications Inc. union members in San Francisco Bay area)
- TCI Installers Vote to Strike In Bay Area SAN FRANCISCO - A strike authorization vote has been taken by union members at four Tele-Communications Inc. TCI systems in the San Francisco Bay area. No date for...
- Research articles 1991-06-10
- Winged.(possible prolonged strike at Boeing)(Business and Finance)(Brief Article)
- A strike by 32,000 workers at Boeing looks likely to be protracted, raising fears of a repeat of a 48-day strike in 1989. The union rejected the aircraft maker's pay offer and accused it ... A strike by 32,000 workers at Boeing looks likely to be protracted,...
- Research articles 1995-10-14
- UAW Ends Oklahoma City Strike, Turns to Pontiac, Mich., GM Strike.(Originated from Detroit Free Press)
- May 28--The UAW resumed building Chevrolet Malibus and Oldsmobile Cutlasses on Tuesday after ending a 53-day strike in Oklahoma City, turning attention to the 5-week-old strike at a General Motors Corp. pickup plant in Pontiac. May 28--The UAW resumed building Chevrolet...
- Research articles 1997-05-28
- The football strike of 1987: a question of free agency
- The football strike of 1987: the question of free agency The 24-day strike by National Football League players in 1987 was one of the most interesting in recent years. The strike may have a significant impact on the future of not only football but other professional team...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Precision Strike Association 17th Annual Precision Strike Technology Symposium
- The Precision Strike Association will sponsor the 17th Annual Precision Strike Technology Symposium Oct. 23-25, 2007, at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory-Kossiakoff Conference Center in Laurel, Md. The 2007 theme is Required Precision Strike Capabilities and Technologies for the Long War. Effective precision strike demands a timely and...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Precision Strike Association 17th Annual Precision Strike Technology Symposium
- The Precision Strike Association will sponsor the 17th Annual Precision Strike Technology Symposium Oct. 23-25, 2007, at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory-Kossiakoff Conference Center in Laurel, Md. The 2007 theme is Required Precision Strike Capabilities and Technologies for the Long War. Effective precision strike demands a timely and...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Danish workers of TDC on strike
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-14 April 2005-Danish workers of TDC on strikeC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Danish telecomms group TDC A/S said on Thursday (14 April) that the strike that started on Wednesday, covering some 15,000 of its Danish employees, was being heard in the Danish Labour Court Arbejdsretten. TDC...
- Research articles 2005-04-14
- Postal strike could cost retailers £840 a week
- 13 October, 2009 | By Lisa Berwin A national postal strike could cost retailers £840 a week as they are forced to seek alternative, often more expensive, delivery companies. The strike, expected to go ahead next week, could cost the economy £1.5bn. Retailers' costs could hit £270m according to think...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Royal Mail strike to go ahead
- A national postal strike will go ahead next Thursday and Friday after the Royal Mail rejected the Communication Workers Union CWU offer to avoid action. The CWU gave the Royal Mail until yesterday to reach an agreement but it said that as the Royal Mail had rejected its proposals that...
- News items 2009-10-16
- Postal Strike set to run into next week
- The national post strike has entered its second day with more strike action likely to go ahead next week. The Communication Workers Union CWU and the Royal Mail remain at loggerheads, unable to reach a settlement over the modernisation of the service and strike action is planned for three full...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Politics of a pilot strike
- TERRY KOSDROSKY Despite predictions of economic chaos if pilots strike Northwest Airlines Corp., members of the U.S. House from metro Detroit unanimously oppose an intervention by President Bill Clinton that would delay a strike for 60 days. While thTERRY KOSDROSKY Despite predictions of economic...
- Research articles 1998-08-24
- IMF go home: Venezuela.(a one-day general strike in Venezuela challenges the ruling party's International Monetary Fund-endorsed austerity programs)(Brief Article)
- FIFTEEN months of IMF-endorsed austerity provoked weary Venezuelans to protest this week. A one-day general strike gave the administration of President Rafael Caldera its greatest challenge in three years. But, though the strike may have cost businessmFIFTEEN months of IMF-endorsed austerity provoked weary Venezuelans to protest...
- Research articles 1997-08-09
- GM strike throwing wrench into economy
- RICHARD MULLINS The strike against General Motors Corp. is giving the Midwest economy a case of the jitters, and the shaking will worsen if the job action stretches through August. The 7-week-old strike against two GM plants in Flint, Mich., has forcRICHARD MULLINS The...
- Research articles 1998-07-20
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