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AFL-CIO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does AFL-CIO mean?
• AFL-CIO (noun)
The noun AFL-CIO has 1 sense:
1. the largest federation of North American labor unions; formed in 1955
Familiarity information: AFL-CIO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest federation of North American labor unions; formed in 1955
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
AFL-CIO; American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
Hypernyms ("AFL-CIO" is a kind of...):
federation (an organization formed by merging several groups or parties)
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