Etymology
Origin of strikebreaking
First recorded in 1915–20; strike + breaking 2
Example Sentences
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Spring training of 1995 was the depressing spectacle of six weeks of strikebreaking replacement players.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2022
After Homestead, the Pinkertons gave Cleveland Moffett, a journalist from McClure’s magazine, access to their archives, and Moffett wrote a series of stories about the agency—appreciative true-crime tales that had nothing to do with strikebreaking.
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2019
Besides working in Gammon's Restaurant on Pittsburgh's Liberty Avenue and as a sparring partner for one of the thumb-poking Zivic brothers, he once unwittingly signed on as a coal miner, found himself strikebreaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
He labeled the plan "the most vicious strikebreaking weapon ever devised."
From Time Magazine Archive
Aside from these brutal tactics, the steel companies also used another strikebreaking strategy.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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