gherao
/ɡɛˈraʊ/
noun
- A protest in which workers or activists surround a person or building to prevent movement or work, especially in South Asia.
- The factory workers organized a gherao of the manager's office to demand higher wages.
- The students' gherao of the dean's office lasted for three days.
- During the strike, the union staged a gherao outside the company headquarters.
verb
- To surround a person or building as a form of protest, preventing movement or work.
- Protesters threatened to gherao the government building if the law was not changed.
- The employees decided to gherao the plant manager until their demands were heard.
- The union leaders planned to gherao the company's main office at dawn.