Concept cluster: Social systems > Labor unions
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(rare) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union
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Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
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(art) One who constructs assemblages (a form of 3D collage).
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Abbreviation of association. [(uncountable) The act of associating.]
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A group of employees legally represented by a labor union for the purpose of negotiating terms and conditions of employment with an employer.
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(sometimes capitalized) Large trade unions or labor unions collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or societal influence.
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A legal or statutory body set up to determine the geographical boundaries of nations, states, parliamentary constituencies or other entities.
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A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
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The owner of a considerable amount of capital; a wealthy person.
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Obsolete form of cartel. [(economics) A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.]
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A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
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(UK) A voluntary body or society which aims to represent the needs of a local community.
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clients collectively; clientele
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(colloquial) Clipping of company. [A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.]
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(rare) The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.
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(politics) A group of countries whose leaders have been persuaded by another to take up a specific task, usually in the context of an invasion or war.
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A method of negotiation in which employees negotiate as a group with their employers, usually via a trade union
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The act of eating together; table fellowship.
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A central section of (usually an older) town, designated as a shared area, a common.
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(obsolete) The well-being of a community.
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shared by a community; public
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(uncountable, obsolete) Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
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One who communes with someone or something.
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Obsolete spelling of community. [(countable) A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.]
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(countable) A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.
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(humorous) An organization that is formed by a relationship between a university and a community.
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(business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
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A combination of events or circumstances; a conjunction; a union.
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Joined together; unified, linked.
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(US, Congregationalism, specifically) A voluntary, permanent council made up of representatives of neighbouring Congregational churches for mutual advice and co-operation in ecclesiastical matters; also, a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united.
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(usually uncountable) The act of cooperating.
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The act or result of joining or merging; union.
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(US, slang, uncountable) A jail operated by a county government.
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A form of trade union where all members work for the same company rather than having the same trade.
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(US) A member of an organization that was involved in, or whose membership commenced with, the organization's foundation.
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Alternative form of gemeinschaft [An association or group of individuals sharing common beliefs, attitudes, and tastes; a fellowship.]
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An arrangement whereby the main responsibility for welfare payments, especially unemployment benefits, is held by trade or labour unions rather than a government agency.
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Obsolete spelling of group [A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.]
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A corporation.
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A country whose leaders accept the visitation of the representatives or agencies of another country.
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The relationship between management and workers in a given industry.
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The building housing such an institution
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The building or buildings which house such an organization.
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A combine; an industrial business conglomerate, particularly in the former Soviet Union.
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(Canada, US) A continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment; a trade union.
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(economics, political science) UK standard spelling of labor theory of value.
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(Canada, British spelling) Alternative spelling of labor union [(Canada, US) A continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment; a trade union.]
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Archaic spelling of league. [A group or association of cooperating members.]
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Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
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(Australia) The publicly funded universal health care system, operated by the government authority Medicare Australia.
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(mathematics) The fact of being a member of a set.
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Obsolete form of member. [One who officially belongs to a group.]
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One of a group of multiple employers who work cooperatively on one or more personnel issues.
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The condition of being a mumpreneur.
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The combination or union of two things.
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(chiefly aviation) Having ties to both the public and private sector; partially funded or managed by the government.
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A formal organization composed of parents, teachers, and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a public or private school.
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A formal organization composed of parents, teachers, students, and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a public or private school.
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One's colleagues or employees.
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A selected body of persons.
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A group of people whose members are linked by shared interests, practices, or identifications, rather than geographical proximity.
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A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
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An agreement between an employer and a union such that the union will represent all the workers at a particular workplace.
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(business) A company that shares its parent company with another company.
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(UK, obsolete) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.
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(countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
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(dated) Group, company.
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(social sciences, literary theory) A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.
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A group of political or other conspirators bound together by oath; a secret society.
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The role or status of a tenderpreneur.
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(ecology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
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Members of a particular group, collectively.
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A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
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A group of nations united by trade agreements.
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An organization whose members belong to the same trade and that acts collectively to address common issues.
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A subordinate or secondary government.
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(countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
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(printing) A maker's mark imprinted on a work to show that it is sanctioned by members of a trade union. It is often a tiny elongated rhomboid containing and surrounded by, in minuscule typeface, identifying names and the union's local chapter number.
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A job where employment status is guaranteed by a union; a sinecure.
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A place of employment in which newly hired workers must join the union representing the workers within a certain period of time, typically 30 days.
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(economics) The wage premium due to being in a trades union
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(obsolete) Union; the act of uniting, or the state of being united.
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The use of the Wagner Act, a form of labour union legislation.
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A trade union that is dominated or influenced by an employer and thus not properly independent.
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A customs union, specifically; a coalition of German states, formed in 1818 to manage customs and economic policies within their territories.

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