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general strike

a strike by the workers in an entire industry or, esp., throughout an entire community or country

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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