0 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 --
1 to be present in a meeting or class, watching it but not taking part in it: --
2 an occasion when a group of people go into a public building and refuse to leave or allow normal activities to continue there until a situation that they are complaining about is changed: --
4 to fulfill a responsibility for another person: --
5 a public event in which a person or group enters a place and refuses to leave until certain demands have been agreed to: --
There will be a sit-in, because he will ask the chaps to sit in.
The management made some equivocal comments on the sit-in.
The prospects of a favourable outcome are not enhanced by the prolongation of the sit-in and picket of the company's premises conducted by former employees.
Clearly, the answer to class parliamentary democracy is that a sit-in must take place and, indeed, it is taking place.
But that was not to the credit of those who inspired the "sit-in".
There has been no strike or sit-in by the entrepreneurial section of our society.
Surely these are matters to be dealt with through the usual channels by intelligent, civilised discussion and not by a sit-in.
No payment was made to the workers until after a sit-in had forced the company's hand.
