strike

I

n.

refusal to work

1) to call, go (out) on; organize a strike

2) to conduct, stage a strike

3) to avert; break (up); settle a strike

4) a buyers'; general; hunger; official (BE); rent; sit-down; sympathy; token; unofficial (BE), wildcat strike (the prisoners went on a hunger strike)

5) on strike (some of the workers were on strike)

attack

6) to carry out a strike

7) an air; first, preemptive; second; surgical strike

disadvantage

(from baseball) (AE)

8) they have two strikes against them ('they are at a decided disadvantage')

II

v.

1) (D; intr.) ('to refuse to work') to strike against; for (the workers struck against the company for higher pay)

2) (D; tr.) ('to hit') to strike against, on (she struck her head against the door)

3) (d; tr.) ('to impress') to strike as (the idea struck me as silly)

4) (d; intr.) to strike at ('to attack') (to strike at the root causes of poverty; to strike at the enemy)

5) (N; used with an adjective) ('to make') to strike smb. dead

6) (BE) (O) ('to give') he struck me a heavy blow

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[straɪk]

first

general

go (out) on

organize a strike

preemptive

rent

second

settle a strike

sit-down

stage a strike

surgical strike

sympathy

token

hunger: official (BE)

unofficial (BE)

on (she struck her head against the door)

wildcat strike (the prisoners went on a hunger strike)

for (the workers struck against the company for higher pay)

break (up)

(BE) (0) ('to give') he struck me a heavy blow

(D; intr.) ('to refuse to work') to strike against

(N; used with an adjective) ('to make') to strike smb. dead

['refusal to work'] to call

a buyers'

an air

to avert

to carry out a strike

to conduct

on strike ('attack'; some of the workers were on strike)

['disadvantage'] (from baseball) (AE) they have two strikes against them ('they are at a decided disadvantage')

(d; tr.) ('to impress') to strike as (the idea struck me as silly)

(d; intr.) to strike at (to strike at the root causes of poverty; to strike at the enemy; 'to attack')