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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
scab .
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Examples
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Or, as some like to think of it, organised scabbing.
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The RMT general secretary, Bob Crow, said: "The strike action in Scotland is rock solid and the Network Rail scabbing operation has been a total failure."
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When a publisher offers an author better royalties than other publishers have been paying him, he is scabbing on those other publishers.
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You ought to be ashamed of yourself, you big coward, scabbing on honest men.
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However, to continue in this enviable position, he must be prepared at a moment's notice to go scabbing again.
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Therefore he is scabbing upon his weaker and less capable brother workman.
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They are organized to destroy scabbing amongst themselves and to encourage scabbing amongst others.
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But to scabbing, no blame attaches itself anywhere.
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As it is, he is scabbing upon his English brother to the tune of $79.50 per week.
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The professional strike-breakers, who, as a class, receive large wages, will scab on one another, while scab unions are even formed to prevent scabbing upon scabs.
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