blacklegnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈblæk.leɡ/us/ˈblæk.leɡ/also scab UK disapprovinga person who works while others that they work with are on strike
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Industrial action
- abstain
- cooling-off period
- demarcation dispute
- direct action
- down tools idiom
- lightning strike
- lock
- lock sb out
- lockout
- pay claim
- picket
- picket line
- strike
- strike pay
- strikebreaker
- sympathy
- walk
- walk out
- walkout
- wildcat strike
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Examples from literature
- A kind of blackleg doing the work cheaper—nay, for nothing.
- Moreover, though I am carefully informed that he is a blackleg, I find him honest.