strikebreak

English

Alternative forms

• strike-break

Etymology

From strike +‎ break.

Verb

strikebreak (third-person singular simple present strikebreaks, present participle strikebreaking, simple past strikebroke, past participle strikebroken)

1. To break a strike; to work for a business where the union members are on strike.
   • 1996, George E. Hopkins, Flying the Line, page 134:

     When the first three decided to strikebreak, Baker knew he could use them as a nucleus to train other crews.

   • 1999, David Rapaport, No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike against the Harris Government in Ontario, page 110:

     OPSEU urged its members not to strikebreak.

   • 2012, Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell, Liberation: Diaries, page 347:

     I told him we aren't about to strikebreak—there are too many spies around.

   • 2014, Cliff Brown, Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market:

     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.