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词汇 strikebreaker
释义 strikebreaker
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈstraɪkˌbreɪ.kər/ us /ˈstraɪkˌbreɪ.kɚ/
someone who continues to work during a strike or who takes the job of a worker who is involved in a strike: 破坏罢工者;顶替罢工者工作的人
Many strikebreakers were subjected to verbal and physical attacks.许多破坏罢工的人遭到了口头和人身攻击。
Synonyms
blacklegUKdisapproving
scab(WORKER)informaldisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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anti-strike
blackleg
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job action
lightning strike
lock
lock someone out
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on strikephrase
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stoppage
strike pay
strikebound
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strikebreaker | Business English


strikebreaker
noun[ C ]
 HR, WORKPLACEuk /ˈstraɪkˌbreɪkər/us
someone who is employed to work by a company or organization during a strike:
Four hundred strikebreakers have been hired to run the streetcars.
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blackleg

Examples of strikebreaker


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In both countries, the deployment of police and soldiers facilitated the introduction of strikebreakers and, thus, increased the likely loss of wages and employment.
Allowing strikebreakers or non-union members to work alongside them in the waterfront warehouses would defeat the very purpose of their organisational strategy.
They even went further than the shopkeepers, and demanded that strikebreakers should be regarded as the third party, with the right, guaranteed by the state, to remain neutral in conflicts.
Mullin finds that unskilled workers were more likely to be replaced by strikebreakers than skilled workers.
It is a travesty to suggest that they are being used as strikebreakers.
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These men have not been so-called strikebreakers, because they take neither the one side nor the other.
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To counter hostile crowds, the line owners turned to strikebreakers.
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Some of the early labor organizing resulted in increasing tensions between groups, as later arrivals to the city were used as strikebreakers.
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Other immigrant strikebreakers were delivered in boxcars, and were not fed during a two-day period.
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Therefore, use of strikebreakers was not automatically a presumption of anti-union animus.
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The strikers found no strikebreakers, and were cheering as they exited the train.
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This paragraph had been amended in 1927 to include harassment of strikebreakers as a punishable offense.
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When the end-of-the-workday bell sounded, however, a group of workers surged to the gates to confront the strikebreakers.
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Employers said they would fire all unionized workers if a strike occurred and replace them with strikebreakers.
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The case involved charges the miners rioted when confronted with strikebreakers, but only one man was convicted.
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