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ca'canny

/kəˈkæni/

Übersetzungen

ca'cannysubstantiv

ca'cannies

Pl.

Name of the tactic or practice of deliberately slowing work.

ca'cannyverb

ca'cannied

Präteritum

ca'cannied

Partizip Perfekt

ca'cannying

Gerundium

/kəˈkæni/

Used chiefly in British and Scottish English meaning ‘to work deliberately slowly; go slow; proceed cautiously’.

ca'cannyadjektiv

/kəˈkæni/

He took a ca'canny approach to the negotiations.

Он занял осторожный подход к переговорам.

Synonyme

ca'cannysubstantiv

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'cannyverb

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'cannyadjektiv

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.