Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Intended to be done while sitting. n. 1 An act of sitting down, especially with other people in some form of social exchange. 2 A sit-in, a protest of civil disobedience by people sitting and refusing to move.
WordNet
n. a strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached [syn: sit-down strike]
Usage examples of "sit-down".
The bakery now is its own room next to the main kitchen, and there are windows and an outside door and industrial-strength fans, but in July and August pretty much everyone but me has to get out of there and splash water on themselves and have a sit-down.
Everyone came in jeans or and the food consisted of cheese and crackers, carrot ely sticks with dill dip, and her famous, artery-clogging guacamole and taco chips--or if it was a formal sit-down dinner, lasagna and garlic bread.
After all, all the blackmailer has to do is either threaten to disfigure a batch of stars so no one will ever work for Gainsworthy, or, and this may be more probable, he may threaten to make all the stars he controls go on a sit-down strike.
The members appointed to the NLRB were less sympathetic to labor, the Supreme Court declared sit-downs to be illegal, and state governments were passing laws to hamper strikes, picketing, boycotts.
She fussed at him while they were enjoying a warm sit-down meal of chili con carne and tamales near the livery, where he'd paid some kids to curry and water their ponies while they cooled off and ate some genuine oats as reward for a job half-done.
With their flags of allegiance discreetly furled and their anonymity protected by sprites, aliases, and the NSA's best smoke and mirrors, the Sit-Downs seeded and highlighted the themes Rochet wanted to see emerge.
But as he returned to barracks to pass the word of the march around camp, he made himself a solemn vow: using every ruse he could think of, from slow-ups to sit-downs to minor mutinies, Dixie Deans somehow intended to reach the Allied lines with all twelve thousand men of Stalag 357.
Having treated themselves to a sit-down pizza (extra mushrooms on one half) with side salad when the Records Office had closed at four, Peter and Sam were now standing in the buffet of a near-empty British Rail train.
Heard Stoker Riley, a real trouble-maker, that Riley, and the others planning a locked door, sit-down strike in the boiler-room when they return to duty.
Then I am going on a sit-down strike right in the middle of your airlock.
Resistance', and she grinned, ‘is increasing and the Catteni have had to call in reinforcements to deal with stoppages and sit-downs and all kinds of passive movements.