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Ca'canny
UK
/kəˈkæni/
US
/kəˈkæni/
Translation of "ca'canny" into Russian
ca'canny
Adjective
UK
/kəˈkæni/
US
/kəˈkæni/
ca'canny
He took a ca'canny approach to the negotiations.
Он занял осторожный подход к переговорам.
Definitions
ca'canny
Noun
UK
/kəˈkæni/
US
/kəˈkæni/
An organised tactic in which workers deliberately slow their pace of work as a form of industrial action.
Management accused the shop-floor of staging a ca'canny to force a pay rise.
ca'canny
Verb
UK
/kəˈkæni/
US
/kəˈkæni/
To deliberately reduce the speed or effort of one's work, especially as a form of protest or to resist layoffs; to go slow.
The miners decided to ca'canny until management agreed to negotiate.
To proceed cautiously or gently; to take care.
Ca'canny on that steep hill, the road is icy.
ca'canny
Adjective
UK
/kəˈkæni/
US
/kəˈkæni/
Relating to or characterized by a deliberate reduction in work effort, especially as an industrial protest.
The union organised a ca'canny campaign that left the assembly lines almost idle.