hunger striker
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English
Noun
hunger striker (plural hunger strikers)
- A person who goes on hunger strike.
- 1973, Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P 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:
- 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.
Translations
person who goes on hunger strike
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