sickout

sickout
/sik"owt'/, n.
an organized absence from work by employees on the pretext of sickness, as to avoid the legal problems or antistrike clauses that would be invoked in the case of a formal strike.
[1950-55; prob. SICK1 + (WALK)OUT]

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