ストライキ

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 20,000

ストライキする · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

strike; industrial action

Refers to a labor strike where workers stop working to demand better conditions. Often used with する to mean 'to go on strike'.

〈場ば所しょ〉でストライキが起おこるa strike breaks out at (a workplace/organization)
その工こう場じょうでストライキが起おこった。
A strike broke out at that factory.
ストライキに入はいるto go on strike
労ろう働どう組くみ合あいは明日あしたからストライキに入はいる予よ定ていだ。
The labor union plans to go on strike starting tomorrow.
ストライキを打うつto stage a strike
従じゅう業ぎょう員いんたちは賃ちん上あげを求もとめてストライキを打うった。
The employees staged a strike demanding higher wages.
ストライキを解かい除じょするto call off a strike
会かい社しゃとの交こう渉しょうが成せい立りつし、ストライキを解かい除じょした。
After negotiations with the company succeeded, they called off the strike.

スト
スト is the casual, everyday abbreviation of ストライキ, used in speech and headlines where ストライキ sounds slightly more formal.
労ろう働どう争そう議ぎ
労働争議 is the broader, formal term for a labor dispute in general, while ストライキ refers specifically to the act of workers stopping work.
同どう盟めい罷ひ業ぎょう
同盟罷業 is an old-fashioned, legalistic term for a strike, while ストライキ is the common, modern loanword used in everyday and news contexts.
争そう議ぎN1
ストライキ names the labor action of walking off the job itself, while 争議 can refer to the wider dispute of which a strike is one form.

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ゼネスト
ストライキ refers to a strike of any scale, while ゼネスト specifically means a large-scale, industry-wide or nationwide general strike.
座すわり込こみ
ストライキ is a labor strike that may involve stopping work entirely, whereas 座り込み is the specific tactic of sitting down to occupy a space.

ボイコットN1
ボイコット means a boycott, refusing to buy or use something, whereas ストライキ means workers stopping their labor as a protest.
デモN3
デモ is a public demonstration or protest march, while ストライキ specifically means workers withholding labor, though both are forms of protest.

件けんN2
件 is used to count instances of ストライキ as individual labor disputes or cases, e.g. ストライキが三件発生した.
回かいN4
回 counts ストライキ as occurrences over time, e.g. 今年は二回ストライキがあった.

Loanword from English 'strike', referring specifically to labor strikes.