Definition of "work-in" [work-in]

• Occasion when workers continue to work as a protest against e.g. proposed dismissal or closure of the factory (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "It believes that giving back to these communities makes them better places to live and work-in turn making them better places to do business."
• "A quick word on the leader of the 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in, Jimmy Reid, who has died aged 78."
• "✒ So farewell, then, Jimmy Reid, hero of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders 'work-in in the early 1970s."