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Meaning of "job action" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF JOB ACTION

job action  [dʒɒb ˈækʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JOB ACTION

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Job action is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES JOB ACTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

job action

Industrial action

Industrial action or job action refers collectively to any measure taken by trade unions or other organised labour meant to reduce productivity in a workplace. Quite often it is used and interpreted as a euphemism for strike or mass strike, but the scope is much wider. Industrial action may take place in the context of a labour dispute or may be meant to effect political or social change. Specifically industrial action may include one or more of the following: ▪ Strike ▪ Occupation of factories ▪ Work-to-rule ▪ General strike ▪ Slowdown ▪ Overtime ban...

Definition of job action in the English dictionary

The definition of job action in the dictionary is a temporary action by workers, such as refusing to work, usually undertaken because they are unhappy with their pay or working conditions, and intended to force the employer to improve these.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH JOB ACTION


abreaction
ˌæbrɪˈækʃən
action
ˈækʃən
attraction
əˈtrækʃən
coaction
kəʊˈækʃən
extraction
ɪkˈstrækʃən
immunoreaction
ɪˌmjuːnəʊrɪˈækʃən
inaction
ɪnˈækʃən
interaction
ˌɪntərˈækʃən
nonaction
ˌnɒnˈækʃən
overaction
ˌəʊvərˈækʃən
overreaction
ˌəʊvərɪˈækʃən
photoreaction
ˌfəʊtəʊrɪˈækʃən
proaction
prəʊˈækʃən
reaction
rɪˈækʃən
retroaction
ˌrɛtrəʊˈækʃən
satisfaction
ˌsætɪsˈfækʃən
self-action
ˌsɛlfˈækʃən
subaction
sʌbˈækʃən
transaction
trænˈzækʃən
underreaction
ˌʌndəriːˈækʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JOB ACTION

job
job advertisement
job analysis
job applicant
job centre
job club
job control language
Job Corps
job creation
job creation scheme
job description
job enlargement
job evaluation
job hopper
job hunt
job hunting
job interview
job loss
job lot
job market

WORDS THAT END LIKE JOB ACTION

accreditation
auction
collection
connection
construction
correction
course of action
detection
direction
election
fiction
function
inspection
instruction
introduction
out of action
production
protection
reduction
section
selection

Synonyms and antonyms of job action in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «job action» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JOB ACTION

Find out the translation of job action to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of job action from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «job action» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

作业操作
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acción laboral
570 millions of speakers

English

job action
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नौकरी कार्रवाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إجراءات العمل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

работа действие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ação de trabalho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কাজের কর্ম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´action de l´emploi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tindakan kerja
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Job Aktion
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

抗議行動
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

작업 동작
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tumindak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hành động việc làm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வேலை நடவடிக்கை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नोकरीची क्रिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Iş eylemi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

azione di posti di lavoro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

akcja praca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Робота дію
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

acțiune de locuri de muncă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δράση δουλειά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

werk aksie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

jobb handling
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

jobb handling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of job action

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JOB ACTION»

The term «job action» is regularly used and occupies the 57.697 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «JOB ACTION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about job action

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JOB ACTION»

Discover the use of job action in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to job action and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Action Learning - Own Job Programmes
OWN JOB ACTION LEARNING There are a number of ways in which Action Learning can be used to develop individuals; this book is concerned with Own Job Programmes. These focus on the development of individuals within their own jobs.
George P Boulden
2
Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers
... following statement creates a lightweight job that uses the program test_prog as a job template: begin dbms_scheduler.create_job ( In the example, the template attribute refers to the program (or stored procedure) that contains the job action ...
Sam R. Alapati, Charles Kim, 2007
3
The Manager's Guide to HR: Hiring, Firing, Performance ...
Tangible Job Action—Vicarious Liability In the highly significant cases of Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998), and Faragher v. City ofBoca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), the Supreme Court made clear that ifa supervisor ...
Max MULLER, 2009
4
A Practical Guide to Job Analysis
Knowledge is defined as an organized body of information, usually of a factual or procedural nature, that, when applied, makes the successful performance of a job action possible. Knowledge is usually not demonstrated in the action itself but ...
Erich P. Prien, Leonard D. Goodstein, Jeanette Goodstein, 2009
5
Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and ...
For one thing, it was clear that the majority of the rank-and-file sailors did not yet support the position of the Lundeberg group on job action and the need for independent initiative by the Sailors' Union. On October 21 Harry Bridges was warmly ...
Bruce Nelson, 1990
6
Action Learning - Applications
External 'own job' action learning programmes are ideal for smaller companies, those that don't have the resources to run their own programmes and for organisations wishing to develop managers by exposing them to other managers from ...
George P Boulden
7
The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American ...
The different attitudes of the two men toward use of the job action was well illustrated at one of the first meetings of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. Bridges submitted a resolution which defined the term "job action" as "only action taken ...
Walter Galenson, 1960
8
Practical symfony - Doctrine edition
Listing 5-33 sf_method: [get] # default rules homepage: url: / param: { module: job , action: index } default_index: url: /:module param: { action: index } default: url: /: module/:action/* The job route above is really just a shortcut that automatically ...
Fabien Potencier
9
Global Computing. Programming Environments, Languages, ...
Exec, which in turn does some internal computation and then communicates the result by synchronizing with process Job (action end). The hiding operator “/ ppass” turns the action pass, resulting from the synchronization between processes ...
Corrado Priami, 2003
10
HR How -To: Harassment Prevention
Job action taken—automatic liability If a supervisor's harassment included the taking of a “tangible employment action” against the victim, the employer will have no defense to charges of unlawful harassment whatsoever. What is a tangible job ...
Marjorie A. Johnson, CCH Incorporated, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JOB ACTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term job action is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Teachers prepare for job action | Sudbury Star
The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) broke off contract talks in May with a work-to-rule job action which affected ... «The Sudbury Star, Jul 15»
2
TSSU resumes strike action - The Peak
The labour dispute between the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) and SFU administration trudges on. After calling off the job action in ... «The Peak, Jul 15»
3
No talks scheduled to avoid teacher strikes | North Bay Nugget
Local public school board officials are as uncertain as parents and students about what sort of job action they may see from teachers this fall. «The North Bay Nugget, Jul 15»
4
Swordplay shines in Shakespeare's Rebel - The Peak
about 1 hour ago; NEWS: The @TSSU ​ has served @SFU with a 72-hour strike notice and is to resume job action on Monday, July 20. http://t.co/aBPBs4kzTs «The Peak, Jul 15»
5
Peak Speak: First Kisses? - The Peak
... NEWS: The @TSSU ​ has served @SFU with a 72-hour strike notice and is to resume job action on Monday, July 20. http://t.co/aBPBs4kzTs «The Peak, Jul 15»
6
Harper's Conservatives No Friend to the Union Worker
2, allowed the federal government to unilaterally define any employee's work as essential, and thus prevent that worker from taking job action. «TheTyee.ca, Jul 15»
7
Ontario Catholic teachers to ramp up job action | Toronto Star
Ontario Catholic teachers to ramp up job action. Once in strike position, no parent-teacher interviews, no report cards and no extracurriculars ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
8
Job action begins at AT Films
EDMONTON, July 16, 2015 /CNW/ - Nearly 50 Unifor Local 21-A members at AT Films went on strike at 3 p.m. today over the company's refusal ... «Canada NewsWire, Jul 15»
9
Striking Qulliq Energy workers hit picket line in downtown Iqaluit
Peter Tumilty, interim president of QEC, says regardless of the job action the essential services agreement between the union and the ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
10
This Tory attack on unions should remind us how much we need them
No worker, anywhere in the world, strikes or goes on 'job action' for a lark, or because they wish to bring down the capitalist system. They are ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Job action [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/job-action>. Apr 2024 ».
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