strikebreaker
B2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A person hired or induced to work in place of employees who are on strike.
Bringing in agency strikebreakers only hardened the union's resolve.
Business noun
A person who works, or is brought in to work, during a strike, undermining it.
The company bussed in strikebreakers to keep the line running, inflaming the dispute further.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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