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grevă
strike (a work stoppage by employees) /ˈɡre.və/
noun#4981 most common
Also: walkout, industrial action
Example sentences
Muncitorii sunt în grevă.
The workers are on strike.
Astăzi este grevă la fabrică.
Today there is a strike at the factory.
Profesorii au declarat grevă generală.
The teachers declared a general strike.
Greva feroviarilor a blocat trenurile timp de trei zile.
The railway workers' strike blocked trains for three days.
Sindicatul a amenințat cu o grevă a foamei dacă cererile nu sunt satisfăcute.
The union threatened a hunger strike if the demands were not met.
Deși greva prelungită a afectat grav economia regională, autoritățile au refuzat să negocieze cu greviștii până în ultimul moment.
Although the prolonged strike badly hurt the regional economy, the authorities refused to negotiate with the strikers until the last moment.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | grevă | greve |
| Genitive | grevei | grevelor |
| Accusative | grevă | greve |
| Vocative | grevo | grevelor |
Word family
greviststriker (male)
grevistăstriker (female)
a face grevăto go on strike
grevă a foameihunger strike
grevă generalăgeneral strike
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "grevă" from French "grève" in the nineteenth century, part of a wave of French loanwords that shaped modern Romanian civic and political vocabulary. The French word originally named the gravelly bank of the Seine in Paris, the Place de Grève, where unemployed workers used to gather looking for hire. Over time "être en grève" (to be at the Grève, waiting for work) shifted to mean refusing to work as a form of protest, and the noun "grève" took on that new sense before Romanian adopted it directly.
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