| 单词 | sympathetic strike |
| 释义 | > as lemmassympathetic strike a. A concerted cessation of work on the part of a body of workers, for the purpose of obtaining some concession from the employer or employers. Formerly sometimes more explicitly strike of work. Cf. strike v. 24, 24b Phrase, on strike, also (U.S.) on a strike. Frequently with preceding qualifying word, as general strike, outlaw strike, selective strike, sit-down strike, stay-away (-down, -in) strike, sympathetic strike, wildcat strike: see under the first elements. Also figurative.The noun, together with the related sense of the verb, has been adopted into several European languages: German streik, Dutch strijk, Swedish strejk. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > strike turn-out1806 strike1810 steek1812 standout1826 stickout1845 walkout1881 stoppage1902 jack-up1945 society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > strike > sudden or unofficial strike outlaw strike1810 walkout1881 unofficial strike1894 lightning strike1913 wildcat strike1937 wildcat stoppage1942 rag-out1953 wild cat1959 wild-catting1969 society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > strike > other types of strike stay-away1867 sympathetic strike1899 stay-in1915 sympathy strike1937 token strike1947 hiccup strike1950 token stoppage1954 stay-at-home1959 1810 Docum. Hist. Amer. Industrial Soc. (1910) III. 370 The Society, in November 1809, ordered a general strike. 1815 Docum. Hist. Amer. Industrial Soc. (1910) IV. 42 It appeared there was a strike for higher wages. 1825 Edinb. Rev. 43 14 Combinations and strikes of work may be necessary..to bring things sooner to their proper level. 1830 Poor Man's Guardian 31 Dec. 8/1 It has been determined at a meeting of delegates, appointed by the spinners in the different parts of the country, that a general strike shall take place on Monday, the 27th instant, of all spinners who are receiving less that 4s. 2d. per 1000 hanks. 1850 Athenæum 7 Dec. 1282/3 Three hundred men on strike have taken a mill! 1881 Chicago Times 14 May The employés of the Grand Trunk car shops are on a strike for an advance in wages. 1899 C. Plummer Two Saxon Chrons. Parallel II. 289 Simeon of Durham..represents the enactment as causing a sort of clerical strike. 1907 R. Dunn Shameless Diary of Explorer xv. 201 Miller's stomach went on strike after we washed in the glacier stream. sympathetic strike b. Relating to, of the nature of, characterized by, arising from, or expressive of sympathy or fellow-feeling. (With various shades of meaning as in A. 2a) sympathetic strike, a strike by workers in support of the action of strikers in another union, industry, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > [adjective] > characterized by sympathy interested1665 sympathetic1684 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > fellow feeling > [adjective] > sympathetic fellow-feeling1594 sympathetic1684 sympathizing1684 social1726 1684 Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse 7 United by this Sympathetick Bond, You grow Familiar, Intimate and Fond. 1757 T. Gray Ode I iii. i, in Odes 10 Thine too these golden keys,..This can unlock the gates of Joy;..that..ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. i. 4 A look of sympathetic concern from Cecilia. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby v. 223 For cold reserve had lost its power, In sorrow's sympathetic hour. 1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xix. 51 The sympathetic faculty was not prominent in him: to feel, and to seize quickly another's feelings, are separate properties. 1853 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity (1858) 230 Thought, conscience, admiration in the human mind were..the sympathetic response of our common intellect, standing in front of Nature, to the kindred life of the Divine intellect behind Nature. 1901 Daily Chron. 7 Aug. 6/2 The head of the Coal Miners' Union is opposed to sympathetic strikes. 1906 Lit. World 15 Nov. 520/1 Professor Dowden's article on Henrik Ibsen..is sympathetic, but critical as well. 1913 in J. O'Connor Hist. Ireland 1798–1924 (1925) II. xvii. 192 They followed by a somewhat lame conclusion that the ‘sympathetic strike was being met with the sympathetic lock-out.’ 1958 Times Rev. Industry Aug. 7/2 The merest murmur of the words ‘sympathetic strike’ will command the dockers' attention. < as lemmas |
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