ADJ
- long
- short
- indefinite
- crippling, damaging, major
- bitter
- official
- illegal, unofficial, unlawful
- protest
- token, warning
- lightning, wildcat
- a series of lightning strikes in parts of the coal industry
- all-out, general, mass, national, nationwide
- A general strike brought the country to a standstill
- hunger
- sit-down
- political
- sympathy
- The suppression of the strike led to sympathy strikes in other industries
- pay, rent
- dock, dockers', miners', postal, train, etc.
VERB + STRIKE
- be on
- come out on, go on, join, take part in
- call (sb out on), organize, stage
- The union leaders called a strike. He called all the workers out on strike
- avert, prevent
- threaten
- More train strikes are threatened
- begin, start
- call off, end
- break (up), crush
- The army was used to help break the strike
- settle
- ban
- The new government banned strikes
STRIKE + VERB
- occur, take place
- start
- end
- last
- spread
- The strike soon spread to other cities
- paralyse sth
- The strike paralysed the port
STRIKE + NOUN
- action
- Prison officers are threatening to take strike action
- ballot, call, threat
- leader
- breaker
- committee, movement
PREP
- during a/the ~
- There was a continual police presence during the strike
- ~ against
- a strike against the employment of non-union labour
- ~ by
- a strike by tax collectors
- ~ for
- a strike for a ten-hour day
- ~ in protest at
- a strike in protest at the government's economic policies
- ~ in support of
- Miners staged a one-day strike in support of the steel workers
- ~ over
- a strike over wages
PHRASES
- days lost in/through strikes
- Unofficial action accounted for 40% of the days lost through strikes last year
ADJ
- air, military, nuclear
- pre-emptive
- retaliatory
PREP
- in a/the ~
- The house was damaged in an air strike
- ~ against/on
- The aircraft carried out a pre-emptive strike against bases in the north
ADV
- firmly, hard
- He struck her hard across the face
- deep
- The German army struck deep into northern France
- directly
- repeatedly
- home
- (often figurative) The remark struck home
PREP
- against
- The oar struck against something hard
- at
- He struck at me repeatedly with a stick
- into
- He struck the ball firmly into the back of the net
- on
- The ball struck her on the head
ADV
- immediately
- suddenly
- It suddenly struck me how we could improve the situation
- just
- An awful thought has just struck me
- forcibly
- Joan was struck quite forcibly by the silence
PREP
- as
- He struck me as being rather stupid
PREP
- against, for
- The union has voted to strike for a pay increase of six per cent
- in protest at