work slowdown

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• slowdown — slow‧down [ˈsləʊdaʊn ǁ ˈsloʊ ] noun 1. [countable usually singular] when something gets slower: slowdown in • There s been a slowdown in domestic demand for automobiles. • A spokesman blamed heavy competition and the internationaleconomic… …   Financial and business terms

• Work-to-rule — is an industrial action in which employees do no more than the minimum required by the rules of a workplace, and follow safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown rather than to serve their purpose. This is considered… …   Wikipedia

• work stoppage — n: a cessation of work by employees as a job action ◇ Work stoppage is often used to refer to a cessation of work that is less serious and more spontaneous than one referred to as a strike. As used in the Labor Management Relations Act strike… …   Law dictionary

• Slowdown — A slowdown 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 …   Wikipedia

• Slowdown utility — A slowdown utility is software designed to make a faster computer run slower. Typically this is used to run old games, which will run too fast or not function properly on more modern high speed machines. Mo Slo is a modern slowdown utility that… …   Wikipedia

• work to rule — noun a job action in which workers cause a slowdown by doing only the minimum amount required by the rules of the workplace • Hypernyms: ↑job action * * * work to rule (of workers) to observe all the regulations scrupulously for the express… …   Useful english dictionary

• slowdown — [[t]slo͟ʊdaʊn[/t]] slowdowns 1) N COUNT A slowdown is a reduction in speed or activity. There has been a sharp slowdown in economic growth. 2) N COUNT A slowdown is a protest in which workers deliberately work slowly and cause problems for their… …   English dictionary

• slowdown — slow|down [ˈsləudaun US ˈslou ] n 1.) [C usually singular] a reduction in activity or speed slowdown in ▪ a slowdown in the US economy 2.) AmE a period when people deliberately work slowly in order to protest about something …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• slowdown — Synonyms and related words: action, afterthought, arrest, bind, block, blockage, boom, bottoming out, boycott, boycottage, bureaucratic delay, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, catabasis, check, cheeseparing, collapse, cooling, cooling …   Moby Thesaurus

• work stoppage — Synonyms and related words: arrest, bell, boycott, boycottage, check, checkmate, cutoff, dead stop, deadlock, end, endgame, ending, final whistle, full stop, grinding halt, gun, halt, job action, lockout, outlaw strike, revolt, rulebook slowdown …   Moby Thesaurus

• slowdown —    1. American    a deliberate failure to do work for which you are being paid    A variant of the British go slow whereby employees exert pressure on their employer in a labour dispute, especially when, as in the case of Federal workers,… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms