English Dictionary |
COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
IPA (US): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does collective agreement mean?
• COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT (noun)
The noun COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT has 1 sense:
1. contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions
Familiarity information: COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
collective agreement; labor agreement; labor contract
Hypernyms ("collective agreement" is a kind of...):
contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collective agreement"):
yellow-dog contract (a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade union)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Cherish youth, but trust old age." (Native American proverb, Pueblo)
"An idiot threw a stone in the well, fourty wise people couldn't get it out." (Armenian proverb)
"Many hands make light work." (Dutch proverb)