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"refusal to work" is a grammatically correct phrase and is commonly used in written English.
It refers to the act of not wanting or choosing not to perform a job, task, or duty. Example: Despite being offered a raise, the employee's persistent refusal to work overtime caused tension in the workplace.
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Mr. Levy's refusal to work with undocumented immigrants is absolute.
Workers staged various actions that included brief strikes and the refusal to work overtime.
"His refusal to work with people who are suing him is just the latest example".
Their refusal to work together and frequent outright hostility had only made those challenges harder.
As always, Mr. Luminski is uncompromising in his refusal to work within conventional categories.
She attributes that layoff to her refusal to work extra hours.
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The perceived risk of occupational exposure may also lead to unwillingness or refusal to go to work among a substantial proportion of the workforce [ 8– 11].
Strike, collective refusal by employees to work under the conditions required by employers.
(The refusal of boatmen to work gave the French their phrase for going on strike: faire la grève).
His refusal -- first to work, then to be fired, then to do anything but stand looking at a dusty air-conditioner vent -- is at once suicidal and heroic, completely irrational and perfectly understandable.
He said the international community's patience with Iran had been met with the Iranian refusal, since October, to work with the P5-plus-1, the clandestine enrichment facility near Qom and Tehran's recent decison to enrich its low-enriched uranium to 20%.
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