| 单词 | miners' strike |
| 释义 | > as lemmasminers' strike miners' strike n. a strike by mineworkers; spec. the strike conducted by coal miners in Britain in 1984–5 against a plan to close numerous coal pits. ΚΠ 1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 300/2 What is to come of the..thousands of drawboys and carters whom the colliers and miners' strike utterly ruins? 1880 Weekly Gaz. (Colorado) 2 Oct. 1/3 Then followed the miners' strike, by which all paying mines were promptly closed. 1915 C. P. Lucas South Afr. Pt. II vi. 471 In 1913 a miners' strike on the Rand degenerated into riot and anarchy in Johannesburg. 1989 R. Graef Talking Blues ii. 62 The miner's strike gave the police the first chance to try out the public order tactics, training and equipment with which they had been practising since the riots of 1981. 2013 Independent (Nexis) 17 Apr. The death of Lady Thatcher has stirred bitter memories in communities struggling still with the legacy of the miners' strike. < as lemmas |
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