sit-in

See also: sitin and sit in

English

Etymology

Deverbal from sit in.

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

   • 2018 August 10, “Chinese Hui Muslims protest mosque demolition in Weizhou”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 August 2018, Asia‎^[2]:

     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
• 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)
• Polish: strajk okupacyjny m
• Russian: сидя́чая забасто́вка f (sidjáčaja zabastóvka), забасто́вка по-италья́нски f (zabastóvka po-italʹjánski)
• Spanish: encierro (es) m
• Swedish: sittstrejk c

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

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.