Usually means: Refusal to work for change.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. strike: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. strike, strike: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. strike: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. strike: Collins English Dictionary
  5. strike: Vocabulary.com
  6. Strike, strike: Wordnik
  7. strike: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Strike, strike: Wiktionary
  9. strike: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. strike: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. strike: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. strike: Dictionary.com
  13. strike (n.), strike (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. strike: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. S.T.R.I.K.E, Strike (TV series), Strike (action), Strike (attack), Strike (band), Strike (baseball), Strike (bowling), Strike (disambiguation), Strike (geology), Strike (unit), Strike (video game series), Strike, The Strike (Seinfeld), The Strike (disambiguation), The Strike: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Strike: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. strike: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. strike: Rhymezone
  19. strike: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. strike: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. STRIKE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Strike, Strike: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. strike: Free Dictionary
  24. strike: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. strike: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. strike: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. strike: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. strike: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Strike (disambiguation), strike: Legal dictionary
  9. Strike (finance): Financial dictionary
  10. Strike: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Strike (disambiguation), strike: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Strike (disambiguation), strike: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. strike: Political
  2. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. STRIKE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. strike: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  3. Strike: National Hurrican Center
  4. strike: Natural History Terms
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. strike, strike: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Strike, strike: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  3. Strike: Sports Definitions

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  6. Strike: Construction Glossary
  7. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Strike: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See stricken as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
verb:  To have a sharp or sudden physical effect, as from a blow.
verb:  (transitive) To hit.
verb:  (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
verb:  (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
verb:  (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
verb:  (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
verb:  (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
verb:  (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
verb:  To have a sharp or severe effect on a more abstract level.
verb:  (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
verb:  (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
verb:  (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
verb:  (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
verb:  (transitive) To create an impression.
verb:  (sports) To score a goal.
verb:  To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
verb:  To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
verb:  (intransitive, UK, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.
verb:  (slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
verb:  To touch; to act by appulse.
verb:  (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
verb:  (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
verb:  (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
verb:  (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
verb:  (transitive, dated, by extension) To quit (one's job).
verb:  To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
verb:  To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
verb:  (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
verb:  (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
verb:  (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
verb:  (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
verb:  (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
verb:  To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
verb:  To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
verb:  (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
verb:  To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
verb:  (sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
verb:  To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
verb:  (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
verb:  To balance (a ledger or account).
noun:  (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
noun:  (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
noun:  A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
noun:  A blow or application of physical force against something.
noun:  (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.
noun:  (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
noun:  (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
noun:  (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
noun:  The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
noun:  (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
noun:  An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
noun:  (obsolete) Fullness of measure; the whole amount produced at one time.
noun:  (obsolete, by extension) Excellence; quality.
noun:  An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
noun:  (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
noun:  (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
noun:  The discovery of a source of something.
noun:  The strike plate of a door.
noun:  (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
noun:  (philately) A cancellation postmark.
noun:  A surname.

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