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sit-in
[ sit-in ]
noun
- any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises:
Sixty students staged a sit-in outside the dean's office.
- an organized passive protest, especially against racial segregation, in which the demonstrators occupy seats prohibited to them, as in restaurants and other public places.
sit-in
noun
- a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats in a public place and refuse to move as a protest
- another term for sit-down strike
verb
- often foll by for to deputize (for)
- foll by on to take part (in) as a visitor or guest
we sat in on Professor Johnson's seminar
- to organize or take part in a sit-in
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Example Sentences
The rally felt like a 1960s-style sit-in with attendees singing along to a gentle rendition of Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land.
Activists from Jewish Voice for Peace donned matching shirts reading 鈥渘ot in our name鈥 and flooded the building鈥檚 lobby to stage a sit-in.
By 2014, he had become the face of the Umbrella Movement, a mass student protest with the umbrella as a symbol, which sprang up alongside the Occupy Central sit-in.
The restaurant itself was closed to sit-in diners during Trump鈥檚 visit.
In response, uncommitted activists engaged in a sit-in outside the convention.
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