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Trades Union

Definition: Trades Union

Trades Union

Noun

1. An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Trades Union

Synonyms: brotherhood (n), labor union (n), trade union (n), union (n). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Trades Union

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Party	Society, association; institute, institution; union; trades union; league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination; Turnverein; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue; freemasonry; party spirit; (cooperation).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Trades Union

English words defined with "trades union": Knobstick ♦ Nonunionist ♦ Trade-unionist. (references)

Specialty definitions using "trades union": Knights of Labour. (references)

Commercial Usage: Trades Union

Domain	Title
Books	Industrial democracy : a statement of policy endorsed by the 1974 Trades Union Congress together with the supplementary note of evidence submitted by the TUC to the Bullock Committee of Inquiry on Industrial Democracy endorsed by the 1976 Trades Union Con (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Trades Union

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Ghana	It also sets up the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which acts as the representative of the trade union movement in Ghana. (references)
	Singapore	The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), the sole trade union federation, comprises almost 99% of total organized labor. (references)
	Singapore	The vast majority of unions are affiliated with the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), which has a close relationship with the ruling party. (references)
Worker Rights	United Kingdom	The largest federation is the Trades Union Congress. (references)
	Dominica	There is no restriction on forming labor federations, but there is no Trades Union Congress. (references)
	Guyana	Organized labor freely associates in the major national federation, the Guyana Trades Union Congress (TUC), which is composed of 22 unions. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translation: Trades Union

Language		Translations for "trades union"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		ammattiliitto. (various references)

Hungarian		szakszervezet (labour organization, labour union, the union, trade union, union). (various references)

Pig Latin		adestray ionunay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Trades Union

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: inundators, unstrained.
	-2 letters: anointers, antinodes, durations, indentors, indurates, inundates, inundator, neutrinos, nonsuited, ordinates, outraised, outsinned, reanoints, saturnine, tendinous, unstained, untrained.
	-3 letters: andirons, aneroids, aneurins, anointed, anointer, antinode, arointed, asteroid, astonied, audients, auditors, daunters, denarius, detrains, diatrons, dinosaur, dourines, dunnites, duration, enations, entrains, indentor, indurate, insnared, insurant, intoners, intrados, intrudes, inturned, inundate, neutrino, neutrons.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: denaturations, insubordinate, refoundations, unconstrained, undercoatings.
	+3 letters: consuetudinary, countershading, counterstained, degranulations, documentarians, insubordinates.
	+4 letters: countershadings, insubordinately, subordinateness, undemonstrative, underestimation, underinflations, undervaluations.
	+5 letters: antireductionism, antireductionist, intermodulations, nondocumentaries, superfecundation, underestimations.
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Alternative Orthography: Trades Union

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 64 65 73 55 6E 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01100100 01100101 01110011 00100000 01010101 01101110 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#115 &#32 &#85 &#110 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0064 0065 0073 0055 006E 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54846770718525580758180

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial

5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography

9. Bibliography

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