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sit-down

sit-down adjective: intended to be done, used, consumed etc. while sitting.

Adjective

sit-down (not comparable)

  1. Intended to be done, used, consumed etc. while sitting.
    • It's nice to have a proper sit-down meal, rather than just a sandwich on the go.
    • My leg was giving me a good deal of trouble, and as I did not seem to be able to land upon a sit-down job, I next found myself trying to sell typewriters.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 134

Noun

sit-down (plural sit-downs)

  1. An act of sitting down, sometimes with other people in some form of social exchange.
    • I need a sit-down and a nice cup of tea.
    • Let's have a sit-down and talk about this properly.
    1. An interview.
  2. A sit-in, a protest of civil disobedience by people sitting and refusing to move.
    • The sit-downs were especially dangerous to the system because they were not controlled by the regular union leadership.2003 (revised edition), Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, HarperCollins 2005, p. 401
    • I helped organize a sit-down outside an Oxford hairdressers' shop that refused black female customers.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 108

sit-down meaning in Tamil

sit-down in Tamil

வேலை செய்யாதமர்ந்திருக்கை

Forms of sit-down

pluralsit-downs

Origin of sit-down

Deverbal from sit down.

Words formed from sit-down

Phrases with sit-down

Questions about sit-down

What does sit-down mean?
Sit-down means intended to be done, used, consumed etc. while sitting.
What is sit-down in Tamil?
Sit-down in Tamil is வேலை செய்யாதமர்ந்திருக்கை. See Sit-down meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sit-down?
Sit-down can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near sit-down in the dictionary

  1. sit-and-wait predators
  2. sit-by-the-fire
  3. sit-by-the-fires
  4. sit-com
  5. sit-coms
  6. sit-down
  7. sit-down money
  8. sit-downer
  9. sit-downers
  10. sit-downs
  11. sit-in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sit-down (page history and authors); sit-down (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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