Definitions
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- adjective chemistry Not
ionized . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unionize . - adjective Organized into a
trades union or trades unions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being a member of or formed into a labor union
- adjective not converted into ions
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus the current funding system -- which BTW is standard in unionized big urban school systems across the US -- outright screws the poor by giving their schools much less real money per student, and the lower-quality staff that goes with it.
Public School Choice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One bonus of the TSA employees being unionized is that there are no summary firings because someone pissed off their boss.
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"Several tests indicate that this relationship is * not* found in unionized school districts."
Teacher Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I know that a lot of you have a policy of only staying in unionized hotels when you travel even if they are sometimes a little more expensive or not so conveniently located.
Billy Kimball: God Bless You, Big Campaign Spenders! Billy Kimball 2010
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To me, only a Wal-Mart fully unionized is tolerable, and only just.
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How else to explain that their bill outlawing secret ballots for votes on whether a shop becomes unionized is titled "The Employee Free Choice Act".
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How else to explain that their bill outlawing secret ballots for votes on whether a shop becomes unionized is titled "The Employee Free Choice Act".
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Happily, for most longer-term unionized entertainment workers -- and I'm here referring to people laboring under IA, WGA, SAG, or DGA contracts -- they end up getting the best of multiple worlds.
Archive 2008-01-01 Steve Hulett 2008
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Obviously, the decline in unionized heavy industry jobs hit rust belt Ohio harder than growing California, which had fewer unionized heavy industry jobs to lose.
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Obviously, the decline in unionized heavy industry jobs hit rust belt Ohio harder than growing California, which had fewer unionized heavy industry jobs to lose.
wiredweird commented on the word unionized
Not ionized.
Belonging to a union.
March 27, 2007
oroboros commented on the word unionized
Could be used as a shibboleth for detecting chemists (according to Isaac Asimov, says Wikipedia).
March 3, 2011