Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who works or provides an employer with workers during a strike.
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- noun A
non- unionized worker hired toreplace astriking union worker.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
Etymologies
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Examples
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Witnesses would later say they could identify the man who had raised the false alarm and much of the evidence pointed to his occupation: He was a strikebreaker.
Steve Lehto: The Italian Hall Disaster: One Reason to Observe a Silent Night This Christmas Eve Steve Lehto 2011
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He next became a private detective for a street railway corporation, and by successive steps developed into a professional strikebreaker.
Chapter 16: The End 2010
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Furthering the betrayal, the president and the Democratic Congressional majority failed to even put anti-strikebreaker legislation on the map -- despite the fact that organized labor had emphasized the importance of such legislation for working people hard-hit by the recession of the early 1990s.
Amy B. Dean: The Roots of the Enthusiasm Gap Go Back to 1992 Amy B. Dean 2010
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Witnesses would later say they could identify the man who had raised the false alarm and much of the evidence pointed to his occupation: He was a strikebreaker.
Steve Lehto: The Italian Hall Disaster: One Reason to Observe a Silent Night This Christmas Eve Steve Lehto 2011
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Furthering the betrayal, the president and the Democratic Congressional majority failed to even put anti-strikebreaker legislation on the map -- despite the fact that organized labor had emphasized the importance of such legislation for working people hard-hit by the recession of the early 1990s.
Amy B. Dean: The Roots of the Enthusiasm Gap Go Back to 1992 Amy B. Dean 2010
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He used BBC for propaganda, operated it as a strikebreaker, secretly wrote anti-union speeches for the Tories, and refused to give air time to worker representatives.
BBC: Imperial Tool 2008
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He used BBC for propaganda, operated it as a strikebreaker, secretly wrote anti-union speeches for the Tories, and refused to give air time to worker representatives.
BBC: Imperial Tool 2008
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For these reasons, the doctrine of conspiracy was a poor sort of strikebreaker, and it tended to fall out of use.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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For these reasons, the doctrine of conspiracy was a poor sort of strikebreaker, and it tended to fall out of use.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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For these reasons, the doctrine of conspiracy was a poor sort of strikebreaker, and it tended to fall out of use.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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