Strike Air Straɪk Train One Day Traffic Controllers Threatening

• the train drivers’ strike
• a strike by teachers
• an unofficial/a one-day strike
• air traffic controllers are threatening to come out on/go on strike.

strike

1. a period of time when an organized group of employees of a company stops working because of a disagreement over pay or conditions
• see also general strike
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/general-strike
• the train drivers’ strike
• a strike by teachers
• an unofficial/a one-day strike
• Air traffic controllers are threatening to come out on/go on strike.
• Half the workforce are now (out) on strike.
• The train drivers have voted to take strike action.
• The student union has called for a rent strike (= a refusal to pay rent as a protest).
2. a military attack, especially by aircraft dropping bombs
• an air strike
• They decided to launch a pre-emptive strike.
3. an act of hitting or kicking something/somebody
• see also bird strike
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bird-strike
• His spectacular strike in the second half made the score 2–0.
4. an unsuccessful attempt to hit the ball
• See related entries: Baseball
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/baseball/strike_3
5. a situation in tenpin bowling when a player knocks down all the pins with the first ball
6. a sudden discovery of something valuable, especially oil
7. a bad thing or action that damages somebody/something’s reputation
• The amount of fuel that this car uses is a big strike against it.
8. used to describe a law which says that people who commit three crimes will automatically go to prison

Extra Examples

• A general strike brought the country to a standstill.
• Both unions have pledged to ballot for strike action unless hours are cut.
• He called all the workers out on strike.
• Miners staged a one-day strike in support of the steel workers.
• More train strikes are threatened.
• Prison officers are threatening to take strike action.
• The New York transit strike is in its second day.
• The aircraft carried out a pre-emptive strike against bases in the north.
• The army was used to help break the strike.
• The house was damaged in an air strike.
• The new government banned strikes.
• The shipyard voted to launch a sympathy strike in support of the machinists.
• The strike paralysed the port.
• The strike soon spread to other cities.
• The suppression of the strike led to sympathy strikes in other industries.
• The union leaders called a strike.
• There was a continual police presence during the strike.
• Unofficial action accounted for 40% of the days lost through strikes last year.
• a series of lightning strikes in parts of the coal industry
• a strike against poor conditions
• a strike against the employment of non-union labour
• a strike by air traffic controllers
• a strike by tax collectors
• a strike for a ten-hour day
• a strike in protest at the government’s economic policies
• a strike over pay
• The effects of the air strikes had been devastating.
• They launched a pre-emptive strike.

Word Origin

• Old English strīcan ‘go, flow’ and ‘rub lightly’, of West Germanic origin; related to German streichen ‘to stroke’, also to stroke. The sense ‘deliver a blow’ dates from Middle English.