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Princeton's WordNet

  1. go-slownoun

    a form of protest by workers in which they deliberately slow down in order to cause problem from their employers

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  1. go-slownoun

    a period of time spent in an unusually slow fashion.

Wikipedia

  1. go-slow

    A slowdown (UK: go-slow) is an industrial action in which employees perform their duties but seek to reduce productivity or efficiency in their performance of these duties. A slowdown may be used as either a prelude or an alternative to a strike, as it is seen as less disruptive as well as less risky and costly for workers and their union. Striking workers usually go unpaid and risk being replaced, so a slowdown is seen as a way to put pressure on management while avoiding these outcomes. Other times slowdowns are accompanied by acts of sabotage on the part of workers to provide further disruption. Nonetheless, workers participating in a slowdown are often punished, sometimes by firing and other times by law.

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  1. go-slow

    A go-slow is a form of industrial action in which work or progress is deliberately delayed or slowed down by employees, typically as a tactic to make demands on their employer. It is characterized by the reduction of efficiency in performance of duties, without necessarily leading to a complete work stoppage. This strategy can be used as a method of protest, as a negotiation tactic during labor disputes, or to express dissatisfaction with working conditions.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of go-slow in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of go-slow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of go-slow in a Sentence

  1. Kleber Mendonca Filho:

    Over the last 15 years there was a very slow build-up of interesting ideas and funding to support Brazilian film production. Now we don't really know what's going to happen, the fact that these films are doing well in Cannes is important.

  2. Manoj Shanker:

    Africa has been consistently exploited, no one has been investing in people because it is slow and painful but at TechnoBrain we share profit and want to share ownership.

  3. WhatsApp:

    We've seen a significant increase in the amount of forwarding which users have told us can feel overwhelming and can contribute to the spread of misinformation, we believe it's important to slow the spread of these messages down to keep WhatsApp a place for personal conversation.

  4. Debra Aho Williamson:

    Social media is evolving and Twitter needs to catch up, fleets give Twitter a way to compete in the' Stories' arena that Snapchat and Instagram have occupied for years. ... Twitter hasn't moved super quickly when it comes to launching new features, so I'm not surprised that Fleets has been slow to launch as well.

  5. Rick Bowness:

    Until we decide to put our best game forward, which means preparation and playing with some passion and some competitiveness, then this is what it’s going to look like, you can tell the passion and the competitiveness just wasn’t there. The big gaps between our forwards and our defense, and when that happens you are playing slow and you’re usually getting outworked.

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