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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be union members or to agree to join the union within a specified time after being hired.
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- noun 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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- noun a company allowed to hire nonunion workers on the condition that they will join the union within a specified time
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bilby commented on the word union shop
I'd like the little union over there, the one with the waggly tail.
March 10, 2009