strikebreaker
noun
strikebreaker is a noun meaning “A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-R-I-K-E-B-R-E-A-K-E-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of strikebreaker is strikebreakers.
What does strikebreaker mean?
noun
- 1
A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce strikebreaker?
Strikebreaker has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-strikebreaker.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of strikebreaker
- strikebreakers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is strikebreaker?
Strikebreaker appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Strikebreaker in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense worker hired to replace a striking worker:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | briseur de grève, jaune |
| German | Streikbrecher |
| Portuguese | fura-greve |
| Spanish | rompehuelgas, esquirol, carnero, crumiro |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does strikebreaker come from?
From strike + breaker.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).