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    TRADE UNION MOVEMENT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movementplay

    Synonyms:

    labor; labor movement; trade union movement

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

    reform movement (a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms)

    Meronyms (parts of "trade union movement"):

    brotherhood; labor union; trade union; trades union; union (an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer)

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

    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)

    trade unionism; unionism (the system or principles and theory of labor unions)

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