one-day strike
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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 ofstrikefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The only recent strike has been theone-daystrikein protest against impending closure.
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Twenty-five very fine schoolmasters walked out for aone-daystrike.
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They have felt so strongly about it that they have in fact decided to carry out aone-daystrikein protest.
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I hope that the proposal for aone-daystrikeis not pursued.
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It is little wonder that recently there was aone-daystrikeas they earn £1·78 an hour.
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It is ominous that during the recentone-daystrike, 360 benefit offices were closed.
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The cost of theone-daystrikecannot be separately identified.
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It was for the whole dispute, not for theone-daystrike.
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It is evil people who, when gardeners at a particular park refused to go out on aone-daystrike, closed down the centre in question.
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Any time we shall have anotherone-daystrike, turning tens of thousands of people away and losing millions of pounds in revenue.
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Theone-daystrikemust have destroyed a great deal of business.
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There were no serious effects on water and sewerage services as a result of theone-daystrike.
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The other day we had aone-daystrike.
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I once took part in aone-daystrikeover a minor point, and one gets very much into the swim of it.
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Indeed, they exercised that right during aone-daystrikein 1964 and again during the seven-week strike in 1971.
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It was not a mass lobby on the basis of everyone coming, because there was a suggestion to have aone-daystriketo bring them all here.
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They have cancelled it officially on their side, industrial action is now taking place on aone-daystrikebasis, and the employers are threatening a lock-out.
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I am happy to pay tribute to the fact that almost half the civil servants demonstrated their loyalty to the service during last week'sone-daystrikeby working normally.
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After aone-daystrike, subsequent co-operation between the men and management resulted in some improvement in performance, but unfortunately not enough to make the pit viable.
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Railtrack estimates that it has lost up to £6 million per day in access charges for eachone-daystrike, depending on the number of services which can run.
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