The definition of a sickout is a group of people falsely calling in sick to work on the same day in order to force something to happen.
(noun)An example of a sickout is a group of twenty nurses saying they're missing work because of the flu when they're hoping to get better medical insurance from the hospital.
See sickout in Webster's New World College Dictionary
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