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go-slow

[ goh-sloh ]

noun

Chiefly British.
  1. a work slowdown, as in sympathy with strikers or as a protest.


go-slow

noun

  1. US and Canadian equivalentslowdown
    1. a deliberate slackening of the rate of production by organized labour as a tactic in industrial conflict
    2. ( as modifier )

      go-slow tactics

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr to work deliberately slowly as a tactic in industrial conflict
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of go-slow1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

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Dozens of farmers have staged a go-slow tractor protest on the roads of Dover over changes to inheritance tax.

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The London “go-slow” of tractors is specifically aimed at raising awareness of three main issues that its organisers claim “threaten public health and destroys our food security”.

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“The risks are really two-sided here,” he said on Wednesday, though he saw the go-slow risk as doing “unnecessary harm to employment.”

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Markets were still digesting the Fed chair’s go-slow comments on interest rate cuts when he signaled that proposed new rules to force lenders to beef up their books would be scaled back, or reworked.

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But the figures sparked protest meetings attracting thousands at Welshpool in Powys and Carmarthen, and go-slow tractor demonstrations across Wales throughout February.

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