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sit-in
[ sit-in ]
noun
- any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises:
Sixty students staged a sit-in outside the dean's office.
- an organized passive protest, especially against racial segregation, in which the demonstrators occupy seats prohibited to them, as in restaurants and other public places.
sit-in
noun
- a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats in a public place and refuse to move as a protest
- another term for sit-down strike
verb
- often foll by for to deputize (for)
- foll by on to take part (in) as a visitor or guest
we sat in on Professor Johnson's seminar
- to organize or take part in a sit-in
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
The organizers of the protest, who did not have a permit for the sit-in, refused to leave and police began to arrest them in mass.
They tore down some tents of the sit-in and set fire to the others.
Our number of martyrs since the clearing of the sit-in 107.
Outside Rabaa, however, the presence of so many children at the sit-in has caused an uproar.
In fact, as the sit-in has pressed on, the number of children there has seemed to rise.
This day Sit-in-the-kitchen has uncovered his face before his father!'
I 'm tired of having you a sit-in-the-corner, watch-the-other-fellow-dance, male-wallflower proposition!
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