Also means
industrial action
Usage Note
Streik is a collective stoppage of work to press demands, borrowed from English strike. It is masculine. A Warnstreik is a short warning strike, while a Generalstreik halts whole sectors; the right to strike is tied to the constitutional Koalitionsfreiheit.
Examples
"Der Streik der Lokführer legte den Bahnverkehr lahm."
Natural Translation
The train drivers' strike paralysed rail traffic.
Literal Translation
The strike of-the train-drivers laid the rail-traffic lame.
Related Words
- Abgeordnete delegate
- Abgeordnetenmandat parliamentary mandate, MP's seat and commission
- Abstimmung vote
- Abstimmungsergebnis result of a vote, voting outcome
- Abstimmungsmarathon voting marathon; extended series of successive votes in parliament
- Abstimmungsverhalten voting behaviour (in a parliament or assembly)
- Amtsinhaber incumbent
- Amtszeit term of office
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