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strikebroke

strikebroke is the simple past of strikebreak.

Meaning of strikebreak

Verb

strikebreak (third-person singular simple present strikebreaks, present participle strikebreaking, simple past strikebroke, past participle strikebroken)

  1. To break a strike; to work for a business where the union members are on strike.
    • When the first three decided to strikebreak, Baker knew he could use them as a nucleus to train other crews.1996, George E. Hopkins, Flying the Line, page 134

Questions about strikebroke

What is strikebroke the simple past of?
Strikebroke is the simple past of strikebreak.

Words near strikebroke in the dictionary

  1. strikebreaker
  2. strikebreakers
  3. strikebreaking
  4. strikebreakings
  5. strikebreaks
  6. strikebroke
  7. strikebroken
  8. striked
  9. strikee
  10. strikees
  11. strikefire

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Adapted from Wiktionary: strikebroke (page history and authors); strikebreak (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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