Definition of "sympathetic strike" []

• See strike. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "At the height of the sympathetic strike my oldest sister, who was convalescing from a long illness in a hospital near Chicago, became suddenly very much worse."
• "And the secretary of the United Brewery Workmen: I regard a sympathetic strike as the last weapon which organized labor should use in its defence."
• "It ain't a case any more of sympathetic strike for the mill-workers."