| NOUN | act | direct action | a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands |
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| Meaning | A protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands. | |
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| Narrower | civil disobedience | A group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination) |
| job action | A temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands | |
| passive resistance, nonviolent resistance, nonviolence | peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing / refusing to cooperate | |
| recusancy | refusal to submit to established authority | |
| Broader | protest, objection, dissent | The act of protesting |
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