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Definition: Strikebreaking |
StrikebreakingNoun1. Confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Strikebreaking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Strikebreaking" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "strikebreaking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thyerje e grevës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стачкоизменничество. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | stávkokazetství. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | スト り (scab, snack, snack bar, sniper, strikebreaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ストやぶり (scab, strikebreaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ikebreakingstray подавление забастовки (strike-breaking). (various references) razbijanje štrajka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "strikebreaking": strikebreakings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-g-i-i-k-k-n-r-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: garnierites, tiebreaking. | |
-4 letters: bestirring, garnierite, inebriates, inkberries, restriking. | |
-5 letters: agentries, airstrike, ankerites, arresting, banterers, barrenest, bartering, brainiest, breakings, breasting, estranger, grainiest, gratinees, inebriate, irrigates, rebaiting, regainers, reignites, reraising, reseating, retainers, retearing, ringbarks, seriating, serrating, snakebite, stingaree, streakier, streaking, streeking, stringier, ternaries, tinkerers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-g-i-i-k-k-n-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: strikebreakings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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