Synonyms for sit down
sit down

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1. sit downverb

   To assume a sitting position from a standing position.

   Sit down! We have work to do.

   Synonyms:
   take a pew, take a seat, be seated

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1. sit-down, sit-down strikeverb

   a strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached

   Synonyms:
   sit-down strike, sit-down

   Antonyms:
   stand up, uprise, rise, get up, arise

2. sit down, sitverb

   take a seat

   Synonyms:
   posture, seat, baby-sit, sit around, sit, model, pose, ride

   Antonyms:
   uprise, stand up, arise, rise, get up

3. seat, sit, sit downverb

   show to a seat; assign a seat for

   "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"

   Synonyms:
   invest, posture, ride, induct, baby-sit, sit around, seat, sit, model, pose

   Antonyms:
   arise, stand up, get up, rise, uprise

4. sit, sit downverb

   be seated

   Synonyms:
   posture, ride, baby-sit, seat, sit, model, pose, sit around

   Antonyms:
   arise, stand up, uprise, rise, get up

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1. President Hassan Rouhani:

   We will sit down at any table with countries inside and outside the region.

2. Ousmane Drame:

   We're done playing with you. You have Ebola, you sit down. ... They don't want to play with them. Nobody is close to them.

3. Kevin McCarthy:

   It’s irresponsible if the leader of the free world would say he’s not going to negotiate. I hope that’s just staff and not him, i think the most responsible thing to do is that we sit down – we’ve got the time period between now and June – and we find places that we could find savings for the American public.

4. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

   We have an agreement with Mr. Trump, for example, which we had not had with President Obama, the way President Trump is approaching matters are encouraging, they make us happy. And we are going to sit down and determine a roadmap as ... two strategic partners, the United States and Turkey, as allies.

5. Michael Zinberg:

   The background of stand-up is when I sit down on Monday for a reading and there’s a great line, I want to do it that night, i do n’t want to wait until Friday. I was afraid we ’d over-rehearse it and it would lose that immediacy … We ’d read the script and I ’d say to Writer Michael Zinberg, ‘ I know where I can put that and that, ’ so I really have to learn are these three pages. Actors are famous for that. Brando did it. We tried an ear piece, but it was read by an assistant director, and he was totally emotionless. There was no spark in his voice so it did n’t work.