mass leave

noun

1. (in India) leave taken by a large number of employees at the same time, as a form of protest

Example Sentences

How changes in atomic mass leave clues to our climatological past.

From Washington Post

This is a flabbergasting story, a middle-class Unitarian minister and his wife, in the comfort of Wellesley, Mass., leave their children with the congregation and go to Europe on the eve of the war and get Jews and other refugees out.

From Time

And I think of those multiply repeated incantations – pitched somewhere between confession, caution and black mass; leave the room buried for future generations, leave the room buried for future generations … – as perhaps our most perfected Anthropocene text.

From The Guardian

The replies made at this time by Cranmer and other innovating prelates to certain questions upon the nature of the Mass leave no doubt as to the lengths they were prepared to go ha the direction of Lutheran Eucharistic doctrine.

From Project Gutenberg

Peter Kirby Cambridge, Mass. Leave the cigarette smokers in peace�but hang the cigar smokers.

From Time Magazine Archive