strikebreaker
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈstraɪkˌbreɪkər/
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- The student strikebreaker first appeared in 1901, eager to take on a "man's job" on the docks of San Francisco.
- strikebreaker student
Examples
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Thus, the student strikebreaker became a significant factor in capital's struggle against labor.
Academic text (1994) -
That strikebreaker back in Detroit, that was an accident.
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The Engineering Student as Strikebreaker
Academic text (1994) -
If he comes after you, you might have to kill him, Like you did that strikebreaker back in Detroit.
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I am a strikebreaker.
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You're a strikebreaker.
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In 1904, he pronounced the strikebreaker a "fair type of hero," a man possessed of an abundance of courage, who was even "willing to risk his life."
Academic text (1994) -
In Providence, when a Brown University strikebreaker called out "Hello, redhead!" to a young woman on picket duty, she retorted with contempt, "Hello, yellow!"
Academic text (1994) -
The strikebreaker was figured as female or unmanly since scabs not only crossed picket lines; they violated the carefully defined rules and codes of masculinity that shaped miners' work culture and informed their bonds of solidarity.
Academic text (1996) -
The company hired a strikebreaker to keep production running while the workers protested.
Synonyms
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7.3
A person who betrays a group by telling secret information to outsiders
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8.4
A person who works during a strike to replace those striking
A person who keeps working when other workers are on strike
Antonyms
How Derogatory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Strikebreaker is made from strike ('a work stoppage') and breaker ('one who breaks'), so it names a person who 'breaks' a strike by still working or by replacing workers who are on strike.