Definitions
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- noun occasion when workers continue to work as a protest against e.g. proposed dismissal or closure of the factory
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Examples
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It believes that giving back to these communities makes them better places to live and work-in turn making them better places to do business.
Jim Luce: Western Union Bridges Economies: Its Foundation Bridges Lives Jim Luce 2011
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A quick word on the leader of the 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in, Jimmy Reid, who has died aged 78.
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Hank Greenberg [CEO of AIG] wanted to talk [especially] after the work-in progress screening at Tribeca.
Erica Abeel: The Hot Breath of Power: Interview With the Director of Client 9 Erica Abeel 2010
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Hank Greenberg [CEO of AIG] wanted to talk [especially] after the work-in progress screening at Tribeca.
Erica Abeel: The Hot Breath of Power: Interview With the Director of Client 9 Erica Abeel 2010
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Hank Greenberg [CEO of AIG] wanted to talk [especially] after the work-in progress screening at Tribeca.
Erica Abeel: The Hot Breath of Power: Interview With the Director of Client 9 Erica Abeel 2010
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Hank Greenberg [CEO of AIG] wanted to talk [especially] after the work-in progress screening at Tribeca.
Erica Abeel: The Hot Breath of Power: Interview With the Director of Client 9 Erica Abeel 2010
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✒ So farewell, then, Jimmy Reid, hero of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders 'work-in in the early 1970s.
Diary 2010
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Hank Greenberg [CEO of AIG] wanted to talk [especially] after the work-in progress screening at Tribeca.
Erica Abeel: The Hot Breath of Power: Interview With the Director of Client 9 Erica Abeel 2010
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He knew what artists are peculiarly equipped to know because they experience it every day in the studio; that is, that no matter how skillfully and knowledgeably they organize what in literary criticism are called the Aristotelean elements of a work-in painting these would be composition, imagery, color, space, drawing, and brushwork-a picture will not necessarily catch fire, come alive.
Archive 2009-02-01 EAGEAGEAG 2009
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He knew what artists are peculiarly equipped to know because they experience it every day in the studio; that is, that no matter how skillfully and knowledgeably they organize what in literary criticism are called the Aristotelean elements of a work-in painting these would be composition, imagery, color, space, drawing, and brushwork-a picture will not necessarily catch fire, come alive.
Fairfield Porter: The Painter as Critic EAGEAGEAG 2009
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