JOB ACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does job action mean? 

• JOB ACTION (noun)
  The noun JOB ACTION has 1 sense:

1. a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands

  Familiarity information: JOB ACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOB ACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("job action" is a kind of...):

direct action (a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "job action"):

go-slow (a form of protest by workers in which they deliberately slow down in order to cause problem from their employers)

work to rule (a job action in which workers cause a slowdown by doing only the minimum amount required by the rules of the workplace)

strike; work stoppage (a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions)