sit-down

1. not comparableIntended to be done, used, consumed etc. while sitting.

   It's nice to have a proper sit-down meal, rather than just a sandwich on the go.

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   My leg was giving me a good deal of trouble, and as I did not seem to be able to land upon a sit-down job, I next found myself trying to sell typewriters.

   1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 134

plural sit-downs

1. An act of sitting down, sometimes with other people in some form of social exchange.

   I need a sit-down and a nice cup of tea.

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   Let's have a sit-down and talk about this properly.

   1. An interview.
2. A sit-in, a protest of civil disobedience by people sitting and refusing to move.

   I helped organize a sit-down outside an Oxford hairdressers' shop that refused black female customers.

   2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 108

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   The sit-downs were especially dangerous to the system because they were not controlled by the regular union leadership.

   2003 (revised edition), Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, HarperCollins 2005, p. 401