coal strike

collocation in English

meaningsofcoalandstrike

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coal
noun[C or U]
uk
/kəʊl/us
/koʊl/
a hard, black substance that is dug from the earth in pieces, and can be burned to produce heat or power, or a single piece ...
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strike
noun[C]
uk
/straɪk/us
/straɪk/
a period of time when workers refuse to work because of an argument with an employer about working conditions, pay levels, or ...
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(Definition ofcoalandstrikefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The result was not just acoalstrikebut a general strike.
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He pointed out that the rate of increase had been halved in 1971, but that was before thecoalstrike.
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This is partly a reflection of a general slackening in world trade as well as of special factors, such as thecoalstrike.
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At the start of thecoalstrike, total stocks of solid smokeless fuels were equivalent to about five weeks' normal winter consumption.
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We all know the type of persons who, in acoalstrike, will go and lug ladies' portmanteaux about on the platforms at.
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These strikes—thecoalstrike, the railway strike, the transport workers' strike—bring in their train a large number of political evils.
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After allowing for inflation, this is lower than last year, which bore the brunt of the public expenditure cost of thecoalstrike.
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Thecoalstrikehas been a great tragedy.
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Recent history in the currentcoalstrikesuggests to me that we have perhaps fractionally more basis for our anxiety than does my noble friend.
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In one year thecoalstrikecaused a large amount of extra poverty and necessitated considerably more feeding.
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The next strike came in the autumn of 1920, when there was a generalcoalstrike, which lasted about 10 days and again collapsed.
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I shall not go into the merits of the recentcoalstrike.
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Have the effects of thecoalstrikebeen quantified?
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We should appreciate that thecoalstrikewill deplete the balance of generating boards.
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While we move towards a nationalcoalstrike, will he continue to do absolutely nothing?
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This is quite irrespective of any effect on this industry of thecoalstrike.
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It would have been a safeguard when in times past acoalstrikewas imminent.
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We have just passed through acoalstrike.
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You cannot have acoalstrikewithout that.
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Take, for instance, the firstcoalstrikein 1921.
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