sit-down
English
Etymology
From sit down.
Noun
sit-down (plural sit-downs)
- An act of sitting down, especially with other people in some form of social exchange.
- A sit-in, a protest of civil disobedience by people sitting and refusing to move.
- 2003 (revised edition), Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, HarperCollins 2005, p. 401:
- The sit-downs were especially dangerous to the system because they were not controlled by the regular union leadership.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 108:
- I helped organize a sit-down outside an Oxford hairdressers' shop that refused black female customers.
- 2003 (revised edition), Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, HarperCollins 2005, p. 401:
Translations
an act of sitting down, especially with other people
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a sit-in
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