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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

파업

Pronunciation / Transliteration: paeop

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Strike/straɪk/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"노동자들이 파업에 들어갔다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

3 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to obtain concessions from their employer.

    "The union called for a general strike across all industries."
  2. 2

    An act of hitting or striking something forcefully.

    "The boxer delivered a powerful strike to his opponent's jaw."
  3. 3

    (Bowling) An act of knocking down all the pins with the first ball.

    "He bowled a perfect game with twelve consecutive strikes."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English verb 'strican', meaning 'to go, move, or stroke', of Germanic origin. Over centuries, the meaning shifted from a physical blow or a gentle stroke to include industrial and labor stoppages in the late 18th century as workers collectively refused to work.

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