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  • adjective Not of or pertaining to a strike (industrial action).

Etymologies

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non- +‎ strike

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Examples

  • Aside from suspending play for the 72 hours following the Sept. 11 attacks, its only other nonstrike stoppages occurred the day following the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 and the day after the death of President Warren Harding in August 1923.

    Must The Show Go On? 2007

  • The Phillies allowed 529 runs this season, their fewest in a nonstrike season since 1918.

    NYT > Home Page By TYLER KEPNER 2011

  • A year after scoring 513 runs, the fewest in a nonstrike season since 1971, the Mariners are on pace for 533, the fourth lowest over that time.

    NYT > Home Page By BEN SHPIGEL 2011

  • At 7-9, the Seahawks were the first team with a losing record to make the playoffs in a nonstrike year.

    NYT > Home Page By JOHN BRANCH 2011

  • No team in N.F.L. history has made the playoffs with a losing record in a nonstrike season.

    NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM C. RHODEN 2010

  • The lowest previous total for an A.L. starter in a nonstrike season was 18.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • "These orders are in reality mere declarations of the equities of each industrial dispute, as determined by a tripartite body in which industry, labor, and the public share equal responsibility; and the appeal of the Board is to the moral obligation of employers and workers to abide by the nonstrike, no-lock-out agreement and *** to carry out the directives of the tribunal created under that agreement by the

    The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

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