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sit down Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to move your body so that the lower part of it is resting on a seat or on the ground:
- I sat down on the sofa next to Barbara.
1 A sit-down meal is served to people who are sitting at a table:
- We're having a sit-down meal at our wedding, rather than a buffet.
2 A sit-down strike or protest is one in which people refuse to leave a place until their demands are listened to:
- The workers are holding a sit-down strike.
3 a short period of sitting in order to rest:
- You look tired. Why don't you come and have a sit-down for a few minutes.
4 an occasion when you sit down and talk seriously with someone:
- Have a sit-down with her and tell her what the problem is.
5 to move from a standing position to a sitting position:
- They sat down on a park bench.
- She slipped on the ice and sat down with a thump.
6 a strike in which employees refuse to work or to leave their office, factory, etc. until employers agree to discuss their demands:
- The six-day sit-down was a response by auto workers to the proposed closure of the plant.
- hold/stage a sit-down

Do sit down and make yourself comfortable.
That'll do, Timothy! Please just sit down and keep quiet.
I must sit down, my feet are killing me!
He motioned me to sit down.
He nudged the cat off the sofa so that he could sit down.
As a form of protest the students organised a sit-down on the roadway, forming a human barrier blocking the entry road to the terminal.
Ordinarily, righting reflexes would catch the animal before it toppled, but a simultaneous sit-down withdrawal reflex can override this customary protection.
Simultaneously, these comments are mutually contradictory: lack of sit-down planning on the one hand, yet at least a two-stage writing process, on the other.