英语词汇“to work to rule”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to work to rule: (of employees) to undertake contractual duties and no more, as a form of industrial action; to carry out a work-to-rule.Cf. quot. 1879 for to work to —— at Phrasal verbs 2 for use of the phrase outside the context of industrial action.

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society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (intransitive)] > work to rule or contract

to work to rule1920

to work to contract1969

1920 Times 1 May 15/3 They propose to ‘work to rule’, a system of ca' canny..which consists in taking advantage of the technical instructions issued to railwaymen in order to do as little work as possible.

1958 Times 4 Aug. 6/4 Prison officers..were working to rule in protest against the report..that prisoners there had been assaulted.

1967 R. Whitehead in G. Wills & R. Yearsley Handbk. Managem. Technol. 69 The system would fail even more often if the staff stuck rigidly to the rules. We see the results when they ‘work to rule’, as it is.

2005 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 19 Aug. c1 Teachers worked to rule, complying with the contract's requirements but declining to volunteer for such things as chaperoning class trips or dances.

单词	to work to rule
释义	> as lemmas to work to rule b. to work to rule: (of employees) to undertake contractual duties and no more, as a form of industrial action; to carry out a work-to-rule.Cf. quot. 1879 for to work to —— at Phrasal verbs 2 for use of the phrase outside the context of industrial action. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (intransitive)] > work to rule or contract to work to rule1920 to work to contract1969 1920 Times 1 May 15/3 They propose to ‘work to rule’, a system of ca' canny..which consists in taking advantage of the technical instructions issued to railwaymen in order to do as little work as possible. 1958 Times 4 Aug. 6/4 Prison officers..were working to rule in protest against the report..that prisoners there had been assaulted. 1967 R. Whitehead in G. Wills & R. Yearsley Handbk. Managem. Technol. 69 The system would fail even more often if the staff stuck rigidly to the rules. We see the results when they ‘work to rule’, as it is. 2005 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 19 Aug. c1 Teachers worked to rule, complying with the contract's requirements but declining to volunteer for such things as chaperoning class trips or dances. extracted from workv. < as lemmas
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