Thesaurus results for SICK-OUT

sick-out

noun

Definition of sick-out

as in sit-down

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Recent Examples of sick-out Last season, Maggie faced nursing union negotiations, culminating in a sick-out. — Claire Franken, TVLine, 28 Aug. 2025 Maggie’s major Season 10 storyline involved the tense nursing union negotiations at the hospital, which culminated in a sick-out. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025 Earlier this month, hundreds of Metro bus riders staged a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults among their ranks carried out by passengers. — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024 The decision came less than a week after more than 100 teachers staged a sick-out, part of a citywide day of action by educators and staff regarding the payroll problems. — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2024

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Noun

Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.

— Jamila Stewart, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
The seven new sit-down restaurants are serving an impressive mix of Italian, Eastern European, Brazilian, French and Mexican food.

— Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023

Definition of sit-down

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Now, by reimagining live shopping for the very environment that accelerated its slowdown, TikTok Shop is seeing sizable gains.

— Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
That 8% revenue growth rate is a real slowdown compared with the 27% surge of the second quarter, where equities trading and deal-making exceeded expectations.

— Hugh Son,Laya Neelakandan,Leslie Picker,Ritika Shah, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of slowdown

Noun

Anger among students was palpable during a Wednesday sit-in on the Ithaca, New York, campus.

— Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, students held a sit-in protest at Cornell on Wednesday to demand changes to the administration and an end to Greek life at the school.

— Doug Williams, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of sit-in

Noun

The pilots’ job action was in protest of the Belgian government’s reforms to federal pensions.

— Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
The job action shut down the entirety of New Jersey Transit’s rail service, from the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains in New York to Atlantic City — including, most notably, trains into and out of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.

— Dan Barry, New York Times, 18 May 2025

Definition of job action

Noun

That’s when the current collective bargaining agreement between players and owners expires — and folks in the know fully expect a lockout.

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026
The current 12-team postseason format was adopted coming out of the last lockout, in 2022.

— Evan Drellich, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of lockout

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