Usually means: Union membership required for employment.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word closed shop:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. closed shop: Merriam-Webster
  2. closed shop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. closed shop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. closed shop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. closed shop: Vocabulary.com
  6. closed-shop: Wordnik
  7. closed shop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. closed shop: Wiktionary
  9. closed shop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. closed shop: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. closed shop: Dictionary.com
  12. Closed shop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. closed shop: Rhymezone
  14. closed shop: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. closed shop: FreeDictionary.org
  16. closed shop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. closed shop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. closed shop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. closed shop: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. closed shop: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Closed Shop, Closed-shop: Legal dictionary
  7. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Closed-shop, closed shop: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

(Note: See closed_shops as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (closed shop)

noun:  A business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be labor union members as a precondition to employment.
noun:  (computing, historical) A facility that runs programs on behalf of others, giving them no oversight over execution but merely returning the output at the end.

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