SIT-IN


Meaning of SIT-IN in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

stage a strike/demonstration/sit-in etc

Activists staged a protest outside the parliament.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

stage

We blocked off the main streets of the city centre and staged a sit-in at the Parque Libertad.

It was unclear how far the students are willing to go, but some suggested staging a sit-in along police cordons.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Workers at the factory organized a sit-in to draw attention to their grievances.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Demonstrators taking part in a sit-in in front of the law courts were beaten up by police.

Eventually they realized that they looked as if they had come to participate in sit-ins.

Hugh was at the Milton sit-in , where the workers won a fight to stop compulsory redundancies but lost the war.

I was there because of sit-ins and marches and riots.

In Pittsburgh, there were a few sit-ins, invasions of churches, minor civil disobedience.

Southern police responded to sit-ins and civil rights marches with fire hoses, tear gas, beatings, and arrests.

There was the odd student sit-in and the National Union of Students was beginning to find a voice.

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