sit in
— phrasal verb with sit uk/sɪt/us/sɪt/verb present participle sitting, past tense and past participle sat
(COMPLAIN)
to go as a group into a public building and refuse to leave or to allow normal activities to continue there until a situation that you are complaining about is changed
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sit-in
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Complaining
- beef
- bewail
- bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark! idiom
- cavil
- chunter
- complainant
- complaint
- groan
- grouse
- harp
- harp on (about sth)
- huff and puff idiom
- kick
- lodge
- make a noise about sth idiom
- nark
- protest
- quibble
- squeal
- whinger
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(BE PRESENT)
to be present in a meeting or class, watching it but not taking part in it:
There will be a school inspector sitting in on your class this morning.
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Present
- all over somewhere idiom
- anywhere
- appearance
- attend
- attendance
- attendant
- be in at the kill idiom
- front
- here
- immanent
- in the flesh idiom
- kick
- kick around
- kill
- pervasive
- presence
- present
- sit
- sit through sth
- synchronic
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