sit-down
adjective
done or accomplished while sitting down.
sit-down
American
[sit-doun]
/ ˈsɪtˌdaʊn /
adjective
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done or accomplished while sitting down.
sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
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(of a meal or food) served to or intended for persons seated at a table.
a sit-down dinner.
noun
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sit-downs
plural
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Informal. a period or instance of sitting, as to relax, talk, or the like.
They had a profitable sit-down together.
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a protest demonstration whereby participants refuse to move from a public place.
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Informal. a meal, especially a dinner, served to persons who are seated at a table.
sit down
British
verb
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to adopt or cause (oneself or another) to adopt a sitting posture
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to suffer (insults, etc) without protests or resistance
noun
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a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators sit down in a public place as a protest or to draw attention to a cause
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See sit-down strike
adjective
sit down
Idioms
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Take a seat, as in Won't you sit down? I won't be long . [c. 1200]
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sit down to . Prepare to eat a meal, as in At six we all sat down to dinner . [Late 1500s]
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of sit-down
First recorded in 1830–40; adj. and noun use of verb phrase sit down
Example Sentences
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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
Chili’s newest chicken-sandwich offerings appear to be a winner as more sit-down restaurants try to directly compete with fast-food chains.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
“I saw Texas the other day sort of is against data centers,” Trump said in a nearly hourlong sit-down interview with Punchbowl News released Friday.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
“The entire time, Howie never had a single sit-down with Mack.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
When Marco Bernal realized his wife was pregnant with triplets, the man had to sit down on the living room floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
“But we’re going to sit down, and Abdul’s going to have to demonstrate some serious outreach to Oakland County’s Jewish community.”
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
“They’re competing with coffee houses. They’re competing with thrift stores. They’re competing with a local park where you can just go sit down and talk to your friends.”
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
I crisscrossed the country to sit down with millionaires and billionaires for The WSJ Money Interview, hearing about how the ultrasuccessful make, spend and grow their money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
She’s looking at her phone and doesn’t see me till I’m about to sit down.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
But what gives them their current salience—besides cozy sit-downs with the nation’s top media celebrity—is their claim, a plausible one, to be speaking for others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
It was one of those sit-downs where you, the talent, talk about your dream projects and what you’ve got cooking and see if there’s maybe mutual interest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025
“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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