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
It's early May, and the railroad industry is bracing for a possible strike. The lawyers are ready to go into a federal district court for a temporary restraining order to head off the strike. What's this all about? Aren't things supposed to be settled in 1995 ?
NEW YORK -- Last night's vote by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers IAM to strike after rejecting The Boeing Company's BA contract offer does not affect Fitch's ratings on BA and Boeing Capital Corporation BCC at this time. However, Fitch will closely monitor the length of the...
ORLANDO, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 19, 1998--Striking Federal Express pilots could strike fear into the hearts of American catalog retailers, putting at risk tens of millions of dollars in holiday sales, despite the fact Federal Express says it can handle the impact of a strike.
For the ninth time since 1972, baseball is facing a player strike or lockout in trying to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. Also for the ninth time, the usual doomsayers are out in force, predicting that fans will boycott the game if the players strike and ripping the club...
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,...
For the ninth time since 1972, baseball is facing a player strike or lockout in trying to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. Also for the ninth time, the usual doomsayers are out in force, predicting that fans will boycott the game if the players strike and ripping the club...
CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings said today that the strike that will impact a month of production at a Harley Davidson HOG plant has no impact on the company's rating or outlook based on the company's ability to generate strong free cash flow in 2007 and the relatively modest cost of...
Tesco was bracing itself for further strike action as The Grocer went to press. Drivers are due to stage a 24-hour strike at Tesco's Livingston depot in Scotland on Tuesday little more than a week after the T&G's last three-day strike. The uni ...
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...
It took rail management and rail labor three years to decide that they just couldn't settle their contract differences. It took Congress less than 18 hours to put an end to the nationwide strike that began on the morning of April 17. Hearings were under way not long after picket...
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...
Strike-beset General Motors Corp., struggling to regain its status within the North American auto industry, has settled one work stoppage dispute, but now seems heading into another.
Flight tests of the technology demonstrator for the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter are checking out ... Flight tests of the technology demonstrator for the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter are checking out the craft's conventional take-off and landing performance. Handling qualities are under...
About 58% of Amtrak's work force, 18,650 employees represented by nine unions, have worked without a contract agreement for approximately eight years, and last month a strike was narrowly averted when Amtrak and those unions month a tentative agreement. The unions would have been free to strike on Jan. 30,...
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