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    TRADE UNION

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employerplay

    Example:

    you have to join the union in order to get a job

    Synonyms:

    brotherhood; labor union; trade union; trades union; union

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("trade union" is a kind of...):

    organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trade union"):

    industrial union; vertical union (a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft)

    craft union (a labor union whose membership is restricted to workers in a particular craft)

    company union (a union of workers for a single company; a union not affiliated with a larger union)

    I.W.W.; Industrial Workers of the World; IWW (a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I)

    Holonyms ("trade union" is a part of...):

    labor; labor movement; trade union movement (an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement)

    Derivation:

    trade unionist (a worker who belongs to a trade union)

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