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n.
refusal to work
1) to call, go (out) on; organize a ~
2) to conduct, stage a ~
3) to avert; break (up); settle a ~
4) a buyers'; general; hunger; official ( BE ); rent; sit-down; sympathy; token; unofficial ( BE ), wildcat ~ (the prisoners went on a hunger ~)
5) on ~ (some of the workers were on ~)
attack
6) to carry out a ~
7) an air; first, preemptive; second; surgical ~
disadvantage
(from baseball) ( AE )
8) they have two ~s against them ('they are at a decided disadvantage')
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v.
1) ( D ; intr. ) ('to refuse to work') to ~ against; for (the workers struck against the company for higher pay)
2) ( D ; tr. ) ('to hit') to ~ against, on (she struck her head against the door)
3) ( d ; tr. ) ('to impress') to ~ as (the idea struck me as silly)
4) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ at ('to attack') (to ~ at the root causes of poverty; to ~ at the enemy)
5) ( N ; used with an adjective) ('to make') to ~ smb. dead
6) ( BE ) ( O ) ('to give') he struck me a heavy blow