TRADE UNION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trade union mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRADE 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 ("trade union" is a kind of...):

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

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

Derivation:

trade unionist (a worker who belongs to a trade union)