/sit"down'/ , adj.
1. done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
2. (of a meal or food) served to or intended for persons seated at a table: a sit-down dinner.
n.
3. Informal. a period or instance of sitting, as to relax, talk, or the like: They had a profitable sit-down together.
4. See sit-down strike .
5. a protest demonstration whereby participants refuse to move from a public place.
6. Informal. a meal, esp. a dinner, served to persons who are seated at a table.
[ 1830-40; adj. and n. use of v. phrase sit down ]