sit-in

See also: sitin and sit in

English

Etymology

A deverbal from sit in. By surface analysis, sit +‎ -in (protest).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sit-in (plural sit-ins)

1. A peaceful form of protest in which people occupy an area and refuse to leave.

   Coordinate terms: be-in, die-in, love-in, read-in

   • 2000, Immanuel C. Y. Hsü, “The Violent Crackdown at T’ien-an-men Square”, in The Rise of Modern China‎^[1], 6th edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 928:

     Thousands of students marched in the streets and staged a sit-in at T’ien-an-men Square, chanting “Long live democracy! Long live freedom! Down with corruption!”

   • 2018 August 10, “Chinese Hui Muslims protest mosque demolition in Weizhou”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[2], archived from the original on 10 August 2018, Asia‎^[3]:

     Local sources said a sit-in protest by hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims took place on Friday to defend the huge new mosque, which was built last year in the northern region of Ningxia.

Synonyms

• sit-down
• dharna (India)

Related terms

• sit-inner

Translations

type of protest

• Arabic: اِعْتِصَام m (iʕtiṣām)
• Catalan: tancada (ca) f, seguda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靜坐 / 静坐 (zh) (jìngzuò)

• Dutch: zitprotest n
• Finnish: istumalakko
• French: sit-in (fr) m
• Georgian: გაფიცვა (gapicva)
• German: Sitzblockade f
• Hungarian: ülősztrájk (hu)
• Japanese: 座り込み (ja) (すわりこみ, suwarikomi), シット・イン (shitto-in), シット・ダウン (shitto-daun)
• Korean: 농성(籠城) (ko) (nongseong)
• Persian: تحصن (fa) (tahasson)
• Polish: strajk okupacyjny m
• Portuguese: protesto sentado m
• Russian: сидя́чая забасто́вка f (sidjáčaja zabastóvka), забасто́вка по-италья́нски f (zabastóvka po-italʹjánski)
• Spanish: encierro (es) m, sentada (es) f
• Swedish: sittstrejk c
• Vietnamese: toạ kháng

Adjective

sit-in (not comparable)

1. Designed to be sat in.

   a sit-in kayak

   a sit-in bath

Further reading

• sit-in on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• INSTI, Sinti, inits, intis

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sit-in.

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

sit-in m (plural sit-ins)

1. sit-in

Further reading

• “sit-in”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012