Definitions for sit-down

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Spelling: [sit-doun]

IPA: /ˈsɪtˌdaʊn/

Sit-Down is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in sit-down (-dinostw).

Definitions for sit-down

noun

1. Informal. a period or instance of sitting, as to relax, talk, or the like:
2. sit-down strike.
3. a protest demonstration whereby participants refuse to move from a public place.
4. Informal. a meal, especially a dinner, served to persons who are seated at a table.

adjective

1. done or accomplished while sitting down:
2. (of a meal or food) served to or intended for persons seated at a table:

Origin of sit-down

First recorded in 1830-40; adj. and noun use of verb phrase sit down

Examples for sit-down

“You can host a sit-down diner for 140, and the house can accommodate 700 people at a party,” Davenport says proudly.

At that sit-down, Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will come face to face with his counterpart, John Kerry.

I certainly would have had a "sit-down" with you if it had been possible.

The sit-down was conducted about a month ago and published in The Mail on Sunday.

The standing breakfast differs from the sit-down breakfast in service only.

So he arranged a sit-down with Ailes and his boss, Rupert Murdoch, in a private room at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.

He was then summoned to a sit-down where he agreed to withdraw.

Now, if there is any one manœuvre on which the Walton infantry prides itself, the "lock-step and sit-down" is that one.

If there is a sit-down meal, she would be between her husband and father.

"A lazy, sit-down job and one for which you are peculiarly fitted," broke in Jimmy Turner.