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sitâ²-in`. 1. an organized passive protest against racial segregation in which the demonstrators occupy seats prohibited to them in public places. 2. any organized protest in which the demonstrators occupy and refuse to leave a public place.
An obsolete form of the simple past is sate and of the past participle is sitten. Quotations . For usage examples of this term, see Citations:sit. Synonyms (be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs are supported): be seated (move oneself into such a position): be seated, sit down (from a standing position), sit up (from a prone position), take a seat