Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Closed, immobilized, or slowed down by a strike.
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- adjective Describing a
company ororganization that is not operating normally because some, or all of itsworkforce are onstrike , or it is affected indirectly by a strike elsewhere.
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- adjective closed or immobilized by a strike
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the twentieth century began, progressive reformers in state houses and city halls, socialists in industrial cities and out on the prairies, strikebound workers from coast to coast, working-class feminists, antiwar activists, and numerous others were still vigorously condemning that same Money Trust for turning the whole country into a closely-held system of financial pillage, labor exploitation, and imperial adventuring abroad.
Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation Steve Fraser 2011
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As the twentieth century began, progressive reformers in state houses and city halls, socialists in industrial cities and out on the prairies, strikebound workers from coast to coast, working-class feminists, antiwar activists, and numerous others were still vigorously condemning that same Money Trust for turning the whole country into a closely-held system of financial pillage, labor exploitation, and imperial adventuring abroad.
Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation Steve Fraser 2011
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Remember when Tribune unloaded its strikebound Daily News on Robert Maxwell I was Sunday editor at the time, they paid him $60 million to take it off their hands.
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The journalists, from the Associated Press Television News and the independent Daily News and Zimbabwe Standard newspapers, were arrested while pursuing reports of attacks on three bakery delivery vans in an impoverished strikebound township in western Harare.
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French Senate OKs retirement reform in tense vote, police force open strikebound fuel refinery
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French Senate OKs retirement reform in tense vote, police force open strikebound fuel refinery
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Deal reached to reopen strikebound Port of Montreal
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Even though President Nicolas Sarkozy ordered authorities to force strikebound fuel depots to open again, one-quarter of the country's gas stations are still without gas, reports say.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Babad 2010
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The strikebound nickel mines in Sudbury represent about 4 per cent of the global supply.
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ACTIVITY at French ports was heavily disrupted today by a lightning 24-hour strike by port workers protesting at what they claimed was the use of force by the French government to enable MSC Cruises 'newest cruise ship, MSC Magnifica, to escape from the strikebound port of Saint Nazaire yesterday afternoon.
NZ On Screen 2010
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