sit-down

[ sit-doun ]

/ ˈsɪtˌdaʊn /

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adjective

done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.

(of a meal or food) served to or intended for persons seated at a table: a sit-down dinner.

noun

Informal. a period or instance of sitting, as to relax, talk, or the like: They had a profitable sit-down together.

sit-down strike.

a protest demonstration whereby participants refuse to move from a public place.

Informal. a meal, especially a dinner, served to persons who are seated at a table.

Origin of sit-down

First recorded in 1830–40; adj. and noun use of verb phrase sit down

Words nearby sit-down

sitatunga, sit back, sit bolt upright, sit by, sitcom, sit-down, sit-down money, sit-down strike, site, site catchment analysis, sitella

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Example sentences from the Web for sit-down

“You can host a sit-down diner for 140, and the house can accommodate 700 people at a party,” Davenport says proudly.
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At that sit-down, Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will come face to face with his counterpart, John Kerry.
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He was then summoned to a sit-down where he agreed to withdraw.
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The sit-down was conducted about a month ago and published in The Mail on Sunday.
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So he arranged a sit-down with Ailes and his boss, Rupert Murdoch, in a private room at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.
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Now, if there is any one manœuvre on which the Walton infantry prides itself, the "lock-step and sit-down" is that one.
Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885|Various
We find no invitations to dine upon our table—no supper cards for a "sit-down" to fried oysters and Burgundy "punctually at nine."
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, v. 3, number 18|Various
The girl is bringing up the tea, and I'm positively dying for a cup and a sit-down.
The Yeoman Adventurer|George W. Gough
The standing breakfast differs from the sit-down breakfast in service only.
Etiquette|Emily Post
No,” said Mr Oliphant; “there—there are some coppers for you; you must do me some work for them when you come to my sit-down.
Frank Oldfield|T.P. Wilson

British Dictionary definitions for sit-down

sit down

verb (adverb)

to adopt or cause (oneself or another) to adopt a sitting posture

(intr foll by under) to suffer (insults, etc) without protests or resistance

noun sit-down

a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators sit down in a public place as a protest or to draw attention to a cause

See sit-down strike

adjective sit-down

(of a meal, etc) eaten while sitting down at a table

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