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down tools

verb

Definitions

  1. To stop work, especially when taking industrial action.

    • But when railway workers downed tools almost a year later, on September 26 1919, Britain was in many ways still a country at war.
    • In Coventry, 300 GMB members plan to down tools over long hours, bad management and a 50p-an-hour pay rise[.]

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