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hunger striker en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A person who goes on hunger strike.
   • This measure had as its nominal justification the argument that the prison administration had to make sure that the hunger strike was going on honestly—that others in the cell weren't sneaking food to the hunger striker. 1973, Aleksandr I[sayevich] Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P[orter] Whitney, “Tyurzak”, in The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Perennial Library), parts I–II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, part I (The Prison Industry), page 468:

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Translations (14)

fi syömälakkolainen (person who goes on hunger strike) · uk голодува́льник (person who goes on hunger strike) · uk голодува́льниця (person who goes on hunger strike) · cs hladovkář (person who goes on hunger strike) · be галадо́ўнік (person who goes on hunger strike) · sk hladovkárka (person who goes on hunger strike) · ru голодо́вщица (person who goes on hunger strike) · de Hungerstreikender (person who goes on hunger strike) · cs hladovkářka (person who goes on hunger strike) · nl hongerstaker (person who goes on hunger strike) · be галадо́ўніца (person who goes on hunger strike) · sv hungerstrejkare (person who goes on hunger strike) · sk hladovkár (person who goes on hunger strike) · ru голодо́вщик (person who goes on hunger strike)