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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

Not present, however: the attitude of our last sit-down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

“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

“You asked about my knee earlier, and I didn’t say a whole lot, but after all of those stairs, my sit-down timer is ticking. And we got one more set to get up.”

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

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

“I want to go back and take every opportunity to sit down and get on the phone and talk.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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

She set the picnic hamper on a pew and urged me to sit down.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Mason has left a lot of material on the cutting-room floor as he’s edited 45-minute to one-hour long sit-downs into four- to eight-minute segments.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

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

“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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