strikebound
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of strikebound
Example Sentences
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Homeless people hawked the strikebound paper as management struggled to keep it on the streets.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2015
At week's end the government also arrested Karim Sanjabi, leader of the opposition's National Front, and ordered troops to help man the strikebound oilfields.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a recent, dramatic example, New York's chain-publishing S. I. Newhouse sold plant and property of his strikebound St. Louis Globe-Democrat to the thriving St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which will print the Globe on contract.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unless he learns quickly, a novice will find himself strikebound, bankrupt or on the verge of civil war in no time.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the mills are strikebound, Youngstown feels a tightening pinch.
From Time Magazine Archive
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