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