bitter strike

collocation in English

meaningsofbitterandstrike

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bitter
adjective
uk
/ˈbɪt.ər/us
/ˈbɪt̬.ɚ/
Someone who is bitter is angry and unhappy because they cannot forget bad things that happened in ...
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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 ofbitterandstrikefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The military was used again during thebitterstrikeof 1816.
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Even after a long andbitterstrikeit is most unusual for a reasonably-minded employer to seek to be vindictive.
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There was recently a crisis of confidence in the board and an unprecedented, lengthy andbitterstrike.
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To make it, unnecessarily, eight months into abitterstrikecan only be seen as exceedingly provocative and vindictive.
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Since then the enterprise has been trying to pull out of the collective labour agreement and has been forced back into it by abitterstrike.
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The mine weathered abitterstrikeand succeeded in breaking the unions hold on the company.
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In the winter of 1949 a prolonged andbitterstrikein the coal industry caused unemployment and hardship.
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He was the youngest president of the university in its history and presided over the university during abitterstrikeby its clerical and technical workers in 1984-85.
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It was a long andbitterstrike.
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There was abitterstrikein 2001.
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It will create a bad atmosphere and lead to more bitter strikes.
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It has no record of bitter strikes, and there is no history—at least in this century—of turbulent industrial relations.
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More than one owner tried to ban lectors from his factory floor, leading to bitter strikes as his employees fought for their right to have a lector.
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