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"2": "strike",
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],
"etymology_text": "strike + break",
"forms": [
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"form": "strikebreaks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
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},
{
"form": "strikebreaking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "strikebroke",
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"past"
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},
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{
"ref": "1996, George E. Hopkins, Flying the Line, page 134",
"text": "When the first three decided to strikebreak, Baker knew he could use them as a nucleus to train other crews.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, David Rapaport, No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike against the Harris Government in Ontario, page 110",
"text": "OPSEU urged its members not to strikebreak.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell, Liberation: Diaries, page 347",
"text": "I told him we aren't about to strikebreak—there are too many spies around.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Cliff Brown, Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market",
"text": "Third, the migration of foreign-born white workers into local labor markets does not appear to have significantly increased pressures for African Americans to strikebreak.",
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}
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"To break a strike; to work for a business where the union members are on strike."
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"word": "strike-break"
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"ref": "1996, George E. Hopkins, Flying the Line, page 134",
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"ref": "1999, David Rapaport, No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike against the Harris Government in Ontario, page 110",
"text": "OPSEU urged its members not to strikebreak.",
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"ref": "2012, Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell, Liberation: Diaries, page 347",
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"ref": "2014, Cliff Brown, Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market",
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