sit-down

See also: sitdown and sit down

English

sit-down (not comparable)

Intended to be done, used, consumed etc. while sitting.
It's nice to have a proper sit-down meal, rather than just a sandwich on the go.

to be done while sitting

sit-down (plural sit-downs)

An act of sitting down, sometimes with other people in some form of social exchange.
I need a sit-down and a nice cup of tea.

Let's have a sit-down and talk about this properly.
A sit-in, a protest of civil disobedience by people sitting and refusing to move.
- 2003 (revised edition), Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, HarperCollins 2005, p. 401:
  The sit-downs were especially dangerous to the system because they were not controlled by the regular union leadership.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 108:
  I helped organize a sit-down outside an Oxford hairdressers' shop that refused black female customers.

an act of sitting down, sometimes with other people

a sit-in