SHAPE-UP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("shape-up" is a kind of...):

employment; engagement (the act of giving someone a job)

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