strikebreaking
noun, adjective, verb
strikebreaking is a noun meaning “Activity intended to disrupt or end a strike without an agreement by workers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-R-I-K-E-B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of strikebreaking is strikebreakings.
What does strikebreaking mean?
noun
- 1
Activity intended to disrupt or end a strike without an agreement by workers.
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to such activity.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of strikebreak
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of strikebreaking
- strikebreakings plural
- strike breaking
- strike-breaking
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is strikebreaking?
Strikebreaking appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).
Where does strikebreaking come from?
From strike + breaking or strikebreak + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).