DIRECT ACTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("direct action" is a kind of...):

dissent; objection; protest (the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "direct action"):

civil disobedience (a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination))

job action (a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands)

nonviolence; nonviolent resistance; passive resistance (peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate)

recusancy (refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England)