Usually means: Strict adherence to official rules.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. work-to-rule: Merriam-Webster
  2. work-to-rule, work-to-rule: Collins English Dictionary
  3. work-to-rule: Wiktionary
  4. work-to-rule: Dictionary.com
  5. Work-to-rule: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. work-to-rule: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. work-to-rule: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. work-to-rule: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (work-to-rule)

noun:  A labor protest in which employees do only the minimum work required by the rules of a workplace, following safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to such a protest.

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