LABOR UNION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does labor union mean? 

• LABOR UNION (noun)
  The noun LABOR UNION has 1 sense:

1. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

  Familiarity information: LABOR UNION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LABOR UNION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

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

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "labor 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 ("labor 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)

 Context examples 

He and Ruth's father were discussing labor union politics, the local situation, and socialism, and Mr. Morse was endeavoring to twit Martin on the latter topic.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)