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job action

a temporary action (as a slowing of work) by workers on the job that is meant as a protest to force compliance with demands compare strike

picket

a place of employment affected by a labor dispute ;broadly : a person posted for a demonstration or protest vt : to post pickets in front of : walk or stand in front of as a picket

rent strike

rent strike : a refusal by a group of tenants to pay rent (as in protest against high rates)

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Plymouth Brethren

The members of a religious sect which first appeared at Plymouth England about 1830 They protest against sectarianism and reject all official ministry or clergy Also called Brethren Christian Brethren Plymouthists etc The Darbyites

Exclaim

To cry out from earnestness or passion to utter with vehemence to call out or declare loudly to protest vehemently to vociferate to shout as to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment ldquoThe field is wonrdquo

Passive resisters

Passive resisters, those persons who, as a protest against the expenditure of a local authority in connection with an object of which they disapprove, decline to

Acceptor for honour

Acceptor for honour, When the bill of exchange has been noted or protested for non-acceptance or for better security, and any person accepts it supra protest for honour of the drawer

Execrate

To denounce evil against or to imprecate evil upon to curse to protest against as unholy or detestable hence to detest utterly to abhor to abominate

Acquiescence

(Black's Law Dictionary). Passivity and inaction on foreign claims that according to customary international law usually call for protest to assent to pressure, or safeguard rights. The result is that binding legal effect is given to silence

After sight

note, after presentment for sight, and, in a bill of exchange, after acceptance, or noting for non-acceptance, or protest for non-acceptance. (Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, s. 21)

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