Adjective
(cricket, of a batsman) Due to face the next delivery from the bowler.
Withholding labour as a protest, in order to effect change in management or government.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgLord Peter Wimsey: I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether. Dorothy L. Sayers
Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together. Martin Luther King Jr.
The police... should never go on strike. Theirs was an essential service and they should render that service, irrespective of their pay. There were several other effective and honourable means of getting grievances redressed. Mahatma Gandhi
I do not believe that people who go on strike in this country have a legitimate cause. Throughout the period of the Labour Government and this one, I have never supported any strikes in this country. Margaret Thatcher
I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work. Dick Wolf
English: "A [railroad] branch that goes on strike is a branch that closes down." Carlos Menem