SIT-DOWN


Meaning of SIT-DOWN in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

protest

Nearly 1,000 fans staged a sit-down protest calling for Branfoot's head, despite the victory sealed by Richard Hall's header.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

We offer a cafeteria and a sit-down service at very reasonable rates.

We usually organize a sit-down dinner, but we wanted to go for something less formal this year.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A sit-down interview with Ricki Lake?

And the first new sit-down restaurant to open in Watts after the 1965 riots did not do so until November 1991.

Instead of a sit-down meal at the reception, everybody milled around, eating from trays of finger foods.

Leave the crystal and good china to those intimate, sit-down dinner parties.

Like many walk-in, sit-down cafes, they also sell pastries and fruit drinks.

Nearly 1,000 fans staged a sit-down protest calling for Branfoot's head, despite the victory sealed by Richard Hall's header.

What is the maximum number of diners which will have to be accommodated at a sit-down meal?

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

My friends had to have their first sit-down in sight of the car.

The others acknowledged us cheerily, clearly relieved to have been allowed 30 seconds for a sit-down .

Yes, George and I have had our sit-down .

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