long
short
one-day, two-day, etc.
24-hour, 48-hour, etc.
indefinite (esp. BrE)
crippling, damaging, major
bitter
official (esp. BrE)
illegal, unofficial (esp. BrE)
token (BrE)
lightning (BrE), wildcat
a series of wildcat strikes in parts of the coal industry

all-out (esp. BrE), general, mass (esp. BrE), national, nationwide
A general strike brought the country to a standstill.

hunger
sit-down
political
sympathy
The shipyard voted to launch a sympathy strike in support of the machinists.

pay (BrE), rent
dock, miners', postal (BrE), train (BrE), transit (AmE), tube (BrE), etc.
The New York transit strike is in its second day.

series, wave

be on
come out on (esp. BrE), go on, go out on, join, take part in (esp. BrE)
call, organize, stage
The union leaders called a strike.

call sb out on
He called all the workers out on strike.

ballot for, vote for (both esp. BrE)
Both unions have pledged to ballot for strike action unless hours are cut.

avert, prevent
threaten
More train strikes are threatened.

begin, start
call off, end
break, crush
The army was used to help break the strike.

settle
ban
The new government banned strikes.

occur, take place
start
end
last
spread
The strike soon spread to other cities.

paralyse/paralyze sth
The strike paralysed/paralyzed the port.

action
Prison officers are threatening to take strike action.

threat
ballot (esp. BrE)
leader
breaker (usually strike-breaker)
committee, movement

during a/the strike
There was a continual police presence during the strike.

strike against
a strike against poor conditions

strike by
a strike by air traffic controllers

strike for
a strike for a ten-hour day

strike in protest at (BrE)
a strike in protest at the government's economic policies

strike in support of
Miners staged a one-day strike in support of the steel workers.

strike over
a strike over pay

a ballot for a strike (esp. BrE), a ballot for strike action
the threat of strikes

air, missile, nuclear
military, terrorist
lightning, quick
pre-emptive
retaliatory
precision, surgical
massive

carry out, launch, make

force
aircraft

in a/the strike
The house was damaged in an air strike.

strike against, strike on
The aircraft carried out a pre-emptive strike against bases in the north.

firmly, hard
He struck her hard across the face.

deep
The army struck deep into northern territory.

directly
without warning
Earthquakes can strike without warning.

repeatedly
home (often figurative)
The remark struck home.

be about to, be going to, be ready to, prepare to
A hurricane is about to strike Jamaica.

against
The oar struck against something hard.

at
He struck at me repeatedly with a stick.

on
The ball struck her on the head.

be struck by lightning, get struck by lightning
be struck down by sth, be struck down with sth
He was struck down with food poisoning.

immediately
suddenly
It suddenly struck me how we could improve the situation.

just
An awful thought has just struck me.

particularly, really
I was particularly struck by the sound of the birds.
One thing that really struck me was how calm he appeared.

forcibly
Joan was struck quite forcibly by the silence.

as
He always struck me as being rather stupid.
It struck me as strange that there was no one there.

threaten to
vote to (esp. BrE)
be set to (esp. BrE)
Over 100 000 civil servants are set to strike on Tuesday.

against, for
The union has voted to strike for a pay increase of 6%.

in protest at (esp. BrE), over
Drivers are threatening to strike over pay.

the right to strike

Strike is used with these nouns as the subject:
arrow, ball, blizzard, bullet, burglar, catastrophe, clock, disaster, disease, earthquake, epidemic, famine, fate, fear, fist, flood, hurricane, idea, illness, inspiration, jinx, killer, lightning, luck, midnight, misfortune, missile, murderer, pain, plague, rapist, ray, realization, rocket, shell, shot, snake, storm, sun, thief, thought, tornado, torpedo, tragedy, typhoon, vandal, wave, worker

Strike is used with these nouns as the object:
balance, ball, bargain, blow, camp, chill, coin, compromise, deal, ear, fist, gold, ground, hour, jury, kerb, match, medal, midnight, mine, note, observer, oil, partnership, penalty, spark, target, tone, vein, volley