释义 |
stop-work, a.|ˈstɒpwɜːk| Also as one word. [f. stop v. + work n.] 1. Austral. and N.Z. Designating a meeting that requires employees to stop working in order to attend. Also ellipt. as n.
c1926‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 25 With their silly bluff and twaddle, And their stop-work meetings, too, By which I'm not allowed to work Till their business is through. 1941Argus (Melbourne) 15 Nov. 3/6 A stopwork meeting of builders' workers. Ibid., Mr. Howitt said congress regretted the stopwork meeting. 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) x. 138 Jack Starbrace called a little stop-work meeting and addressed it. 1957Landfall 11 Apr. 278 But it was a good day for a stop-work. 1977N.Z. Listener 15 Jan. 6/4 A great many immigrants, probably the majority, were never involved in any kind of trade unionism in Britain and would not have recognised a ‘stop-work’ meeting if they had actually fallen over one! 2. N. Amer. Designating an order requiring work to stop.
1972Even. Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 28 June 1/1 The federal cabinet has authorized a stop-work order. 1973N.Y. Law Jrnl. 26 July 2/1 This is an article 78 proceeding to rescind a ‘stop work’ order issued by the New York City Department of Buildings. |