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Person who's really crossed the line
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strikebreaker
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.
Wikipedia
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" Strikebreaker " is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov . It was first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories under the title "Male Strikebreaker" and reprinted in the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories ...
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n. someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike [syn: scab , blackleg , rat ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In January and February 1985 it collapsed amidst tremendous local recriminations, directed primarily and almost entirely at strikebreakers. ▪ It might also start by attempts to prevent the transportation of strikebreakers or ...
Usage examples of strikebreaker.
Early that morning Derek had assembled twenty of the strongest laborers, and taken them a round of the farms to force the strikebreakers to desist.
The strike held for four months, but the plant was producing steel with strikebreakers who were brought in, often in locked trains, not knowing their destination, not knowing a strike was on.
The Guard brought strikebreakers in under cover of night, not telling them there was a strike.
Twenty persons were treated for injuries, three were hurt so seriously that they may die, and dozens of others were nursing wounds from flying bottles, lead pipe, and stones after clashes between striking longshoremen and Negro strikebreakers along the Charlestown-East Boston waterfront.
Deputies and armed strikebreakers in South Carolina fired on pickets, killing seven, wounding twenty others.
Blacks were still being used as strikebreakers, but now there were also attempts to bring blacks and whites together against their common enemy.
On die morning of the April 14, Colorado militiamen and other strikebreakers fired their guns into the camp and burned down the tents, killing twenty--mostly women and children.
Lepke led the way in that field, around from strikebreakers to trade associations to pocket unions.
Strikebreakers were brought in, and some workers went back to work, but the strikers did win a twelve-hour day and nine hours on Saturday.