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- noun Activity intended to
disrupt orend without an agreement astrike byworkers . - adjective Of or pertaining to such activity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers
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Examples
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Even if he was a horrible, evil, strikebreaking man.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Even if he was a horrible, evil, strikebreaking man.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Soon the area was swarming with National Guardsmen, out-of-town strikebreaking thugs and striking miners.
Steve Lehto: The Italian Hall Disaster: One Reason to Observe a Silent Night This Christmas Eve Steve Lehto 2011
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Even if he was a horrible, evil, strikebreaking man.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Soon the area was swarming with National Guardsmen, out-of-town strikebreaking thugs and striking miners.
Steve Lehto: The Italian Hall Disaster: One Reason to Observe a Silent Night This Christmas Eve Steve Lehto 2011
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But the problem for the local powers of 1913 is that we do know, and we can remember: The man who cried "Fire!" at the Italian Hall was a strikebreaking thug.
Steve Lehto: The Italian Hall Disaster: One Reason to Observe a Silent Night This Christmas Eve Steve Lehto 2011
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And the capitalist employers, instead of giving heed to the warnings, are perfecting their strikebreaking organization and combining more strongly than ever for a general assault upon that dearest of all things to the trades - unions, — the closed shop.
Revolution 2010
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Since there is no law against strikebreaking, the only way unions can suppress it is by stigmatizing those who do it as "scabs."
Polygamy Meets Economy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Even if he was a horrible, evil, strikebreaking man.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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But the problem for the local powers of 1913 is that we do know, and we can remember: The man who cried "Fire!" at the Italian Hall was a strikebreaking thug.
Steve Lehto: The Italian Hall Disaster: One Reason to Observe a Silent Night This Christmas Eve Steve Lehto 2011
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