work-in
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7.7
- noun
- Archaic
:
huelga de trabajo
- The first thing Yi tells us is that the PMD program, like everything at Facebook, is a work in progress.
Examples
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Reduce work-in-process inventory costs by removing unnecessary storage between machines B and C.
Blog text (5) -
I now use placeholders such as "insert eye color here" in my work-in-progress to note a character description or a fact I can look up later.
Academic text (2010) -
- It's a work in progress.
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But that model is a work in progress.
Blog text (5) -
"Ultimately, they need several layers of data management: a personal level, a work-in-process level, and an enterprise level." At the personal level, engineers use their CAD, CAM, or CAE systems to answer what-if questions about the particular job at hand," he added.
Academic text (1997) -
The employees organized a work-in to protest against the factory's closure.
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During the work-in, the workers demonstrated their commitment to saving their jobs.
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The factory's work-in showed solidarity among employees facing layoffs.
Synonyms
1
5.7
Temporary work protest by workers to demand better pay or conditions
1
7.4
A protest where workers work slowly on purpose to pressure their employer
Follow rules exactly to make tasks slower as a protest
Antonyms
145
2.6
An event when a company ends someone's job because of money problems, not because they did a bad job
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Work-in joins work and in, and it was modeled on protest names like 'sit-in'. In a work-in employees stay 'inside' their workplace and keep working to protest a factory closing or job loss, so the name tells you exactly what they do.