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) |
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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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