| 单词 | work-to-contract |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswork-to-contract work-to-contract n. a form of industrial action in which employees undertake their contractual duties and no more; an instance of this; = work-to-rule n. at Phrases 14a. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > protest > forms of rattening1828 polytechnic1835 restriction1852 lockout1853 ca'canny1896 restrictive practice1896 go-slow1920 hartal1920 lock-in1920 working to rule1920 work-to-rule1920 cacannyism1921 job actionc1926 slowdown1926 gherao1967 work-in1967 work-to-contract1969 sick-out1970 sick-in1974 siege action1977 1969 Financial Times 13 Feb. 32/2 More than 1,000 pilots..are to prepare plans for what they call a ‘work-to-contract’ if the corporations's pay proposals..do not advance negotiations for more money and better conditions of service. 1975 Times 13 Jan. 15/1 Instead of wholesale industrial action by most of the [medical] profession, we are left with the consultants and their ‘work-to-contract’. 1996 Jrnl. Gen. Educ. 45 71 He interprets unions as potentially democratizing forces that have often mistaken..an instrumental, work-to-contract strategy, for empowerment. 2013 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 1 Feb. 6 The Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association suspended its work to contract last year. < as lemmas |
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