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• sit-down
  sit-down

  adjective

  done or accomplished while sitting down.
• sit down
  sit down

  verb

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

sit-down

American  

[sit-daun] / ˈsɪtˌdaʊn /

adjective

1. done or accomplished while sitting down.

   sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.

2. (of a meal or food) served to or intended for persons seated at a table.

   a sit-down dinner.

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noun

• sit-downs
  plural

1. Informal. a period or instance of sitting, as to relax, talk, or the like.

   They had a profitable sit-down together.

2. sit-down strike.

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

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

sit down British  

verb

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

2. to suffer (insults, etc) without protests or resistance

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noun

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

2. See sit-down strike

adjective

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

sit down Idioms  

1. Take a seat, as in Won't you sit down? I won't be long . [c. 1200]

2. sit down to . Prepare to eat a meal, as in At six we all sat down to dinner . [Late 1500s]

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• sit-downs
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of sit-down

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

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Example Sentences

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Instead of having a sit-down birthday dinner at a restaurant, for example, you could arrange a more casual get-together at a bar or a park.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

To scratch that fully voyeuristic itch, we often have to wait for merger and dealmaker principals to talk for themselves: the sit-down broadcast interviews; the expansive anecdotes from a panel stage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

In her first sit-down interview since the A66 crash, speaking exclusively to the BBC, Victoria Fuller said the force needed to become part of a larger force with greater resources.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

"My husband just became the scapegoat," Ritu Pant, 36, told AFP in her first sit-down interview since her husband's arrest in June.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Claudia next suggested a real sit-down restaurant with tablecloths on the tables and waiters to serve you.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

I rolled my eyes when Rodriguez — whose office declined a chance for her to sit down with me to talk up why Latinos should support Bass — said that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Plus, a look inside Gaza shows how Israel’s military footprint is expanding, and we sit down with the Pentagon’s No. 2 official in his first interview on the job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

When you sit down and think about your family’s future, does access to these resources feel important?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

But a couple of years into this project, I couldn’t sit down at a dinner party without the guy to the right and the woman to the left telling me about their chatbot besties.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Then you’d better get a move on,” he said, turning to sit down at his desk.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

For the superrich, private bankers or lawyers might fly to vacation homes to facilitate sit-downs or kick-start a financial conversation on the ski slopes or at the lake house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Planned for this week are solo sit-downs with Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert and the panel of “The View.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

“Win the nomination, pick your nominee, lay out your economic plan, do your convention and now do some sit-downs and amplify that.”

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024

She mentioned one of his big legacy-media sit-downs, an interview with George Stephanopoulos, seemingly just to establish that Bankman-Fried was making the rounds and talking a lot.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2023

I could escape the stage-managed multilateral meetings and sit-downs with leaders and find new ways to bring a little extra warmth to those otherwise staid visits.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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