strike pay
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6.7
- noun
- Jargon
:
pago de huelga
- Sandra, here's your strike pay.
Examples
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The union provided strike pay to its members while they protested for better working conditions.
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During the lengthy industrial action, workers relied heavily on strike pay to meet their daily expenses.
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After weeks without work, many employees were grateful for the strike pay that helped them stay afloat.
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Morphology
The meaning 'money paid to workers during a strike' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'strike' (an organized stoppage of work) with 'pay' (remuneration). This noun+noun composition follows a common, compositional pattern found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Strike pay comes from unions giving money to members when they stop work in a protest called a 'strike'. Think of strike as the reason and pay as the money, so 'strike pay' means 'money to help workers while they cannot earn money'.