"strike work" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1799, The Lady’s Magazine, volume 30, page 525",
          "text": "About nine hundred bakers, it is said, struck work on Saturday night, in consequence of their wages not being raised.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 16, in Mary Barton, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 286",
          "text": "[…] whenever they’ve got a point to gain, no matter how unreasonable, they’ll strike work.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1871, David Livingstone, journal entry dated 11 February, 1871, in Horace Waller (ed.), The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, London: John Murray, 1874, Volume 2, Chapter 4, p. 99,\nMen struck work for higher wages: I consented to give them six dollars a month if they behaved well; if ill I diminish it, so we hope to start to-morrow."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 March 16, “Patients left in lurch as doctors continue strike”, in The New Indian Express",
          "text": "The strike, which is into its third day, has raised serious ethical questions whether doctors should strike work at the cost of patients.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go on strike."
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        "(dated, India) To go on strike."
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          "word": "strike"
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          "text": "1848, Charles Dickens, letter dated 28 November, 1848 in Georgina Hogarth and Mamie Dickens (eds.), The Letters of Charles Dickens, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, p. 203,\nCome down on Friday. There is a train leaves London Bridge at two—gets here at four. By that time I shall be ready to strike work."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1871, James Russell Lowell, “My Garden Acquaintance”, in My Study Windows, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 6",
          "text": "This very year I saw the linnets at work thatching, just before a snow-storm which covered the ground several inches deep for a number of days. They struck work and left us for a while, no doubt in search of food.",
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          "text": "c. 1930s, Bert Higgins, interview transcribed in Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Arkansas, Slave Narratives, Volume 2, Part 3, Washington: Library of Congress, 1941,\nWhen we got free old master read it to us out of the paper. We was out in the field and I was totin’ water. Some of ’em struck work and went to the house and set around a while but they soon went back to the field. And a few days after that he hired ’em."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To stop working (for a break, at the end of the work day, etc.)."
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        "(dated) To stop working (for a break, at the end of the work day, etc.)."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "quit"
        },
        {
          "word": "call it a quits"
        },
        {
          "word": "pack it in"
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        {
          "text": "1845, Robert Browning, letter dated 28 January, 1845 in The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846, New York: Harper, 1899, p. 9,\nYour books lie on my table here, at arm’s length from me, in this old room where I sit all day: and when my head aches or wanders or strikes work, as it now or then will, I take my chance for either green-covered volume,"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1877, Richard A. Proctor, chapter 6, in Myths and Marvels of Astronomy, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, page 182",
          "text": "These auroras were accompanied with unusually great electro-magnetic disturbances in every part of the world. In many places the telegraph wires struck work.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1885, Clinton Dent, chapter 1, in Above the Snow Line, London: Longmans, Green, page 9",
          "text": "Many of the smaller brooks had struck work altogether, while the main river was reduced to a clear stream trickling lazily down between sloping banks of rounded white boulders […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, George Orwell, chapter 2, in The Road to Wigan Pier, New York: Harcourt, Brace, published 1958, page 27",
          "text": "[…] when you come to the end of the beams and try to get up again, you find that your knees have temporarily struck work and refuse to lift you.",
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        "To stop functioning."
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        "(dated, figurative, of things) To stop functioning."
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  "word": "strike work"
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          "ref": "1799, The Lady’s Magazine, volume 30, page 525",
          "text": "About nine hundred bakers, it is said, struck work on Saturday night, in consequence of their wages not being raised.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 16, in Mary Barton, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 286",
          "text": "[…] whenever they’ve got a point to gain, no matter how unreasonable, they’ll strike work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "1871, David Livingstone, journal entry dated 11 February, 1871, in Horace Waller (ed.), The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, London: John Murray, 1874, Volume 2, Chapter 4, p. 99,\nMen struck work for higher wages: I consented to give them six dollars a month if they behaved well; if ill I diminish it, so we hope to start to-morrow."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 March 16, “Patients left in lurch as doctors continue strike”, in The New Indian Express",
          "text": "The strike, which is into its third day, has raised serious ethical questions whether doctors should strike work at the cost of patients.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "To go on strike."
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        "(dated, India) To go on strike."
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1871, James Russell Lowell, “My Garden Acquaintance”, in My Study Windows, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 6",
          "text": "This very year I saw the linnets at work thatching, just before a snow-storm which covered the ground several inches deep for a number of days. They struck work and left us for a while, no doubt in search of food.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "c. 1930s, Bert Higgins, interview transcribed in Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Arkansas, Slave Narratives, Volume 2, Part 3, Washington: Library of Congress, 1941,\nWhen we got free old master read it to us out of the paper. We was out in the field and I was totin’ water. Some of ’em struck work and went to the house and set around a while but they soon went back to the field. And a few days after that he hired ’em."
        }
      ],
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        "To stop working (for a break, at the end of the work day, etc.)."
      ],
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        "(dated) To stop working (for a break, at the end of the work day, etc.)."
      ],
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          "word": "call it a quits"
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          "word": "pack it in"
        }
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          "text": "1845, Robert Browning, letter dated 28 January, 1845 in The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846, New York: Harper, 1899, p. 9,\nYour books lie on my table here, at arm’s length from me, in this old room where I sit all day: and when my head aches or wanders or strikes work, as it now or then will, I take my chance for either green-covered volume,"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1877, Richard A. Proctor, chapter 6, in Myths and Marvels of Astronomy, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, page 182",
          "text": "These auroras were accompanied with unusually great electro-magnetic disturbances in every part of the world. In many places the telegraph wires struck work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1885, Clinton Dent, chapter 1, in Above the Snow Line, London: Longmans, Green, page 9",
          "text": "Many of the smaller brooks had struck work altogether, while the main river was reduced to a clear stream trickling lazily down between sloping banks of rounded white boulders […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, George Orwell, chapter 2, in The Road to Wigan Pier, New York: Harcourt, Brace, published 1958, page 27",
          "text": "[…] when you come to the end of the beams and try to get up again, you find that your knees have temporarily struck work and refuse to lift you.",
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        }
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        "To stop functioning."
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        "(dated, figurative, of things) To stop functioning."
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