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"ref": "2019 November 6, Robert Drysdale, “Wires offer boost to Borders revival”, in Rail, page 42",
"text": "Furthermore, overdue training of crew on the new Class 385 electrics, compounded by industrial action, meant that announcements of train cancellations \"due to a member of the train crew being unavailable\" became very familiar to passengers across east central Scotland.",
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"A workplace protest by employees designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer."
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"word": "go-slow"
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"word": "overtime ban"
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"word": "slowdown"
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"word": "stayaway"
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"word": "stayout"
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{
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"word": "work-to-rule"
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"(chiefly British, Ireland) A workplace protest by employees designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer."
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{
"word": "labour action"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "workplace protest",
"word": "työtaistelu"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "workplace protest",
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"word": "Arbeitskampf"
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"sense": "workplace protest",
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"word": "stailc"
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"sense": "workplace protest",
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"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "workplace protest",
"word": "työtaistelu"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "workplace protest",
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"word": "Arbeitskampf"
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "workplace protest",
"tags": [
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"word": "stailc"
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"word": "stridsåtgärd"
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],
"word": "industrial action"
}
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