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Unionized

Definition: Unionized

Unionized

Adjective

1. Not converted into ions.

2. Being a member of or formed into a labor union; "organized labor"; "unionized workers"; "a unionized shop".

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


Synonyms: Unionized

Synonyms: nonionic (adj), nonionised (adj), nonionized (adj), organised (adj), organized (adj), unionised (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: ionized (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unionized

English words defined with "unionized": organised, organizedunionised. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unionized": rate of unionizationunion density. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unionized

DomainTitle

Books

  • Clv Special Reports - Dismissals in the Unionized Workplace: Recent Developments (reference)

  • Creative Academic Bargaining: Managing Conflict in the Unionized College and University (reference)

  • Crossing the line : unionized employee ownership and investment funds (reference)

  • Deregulation and the Decline of the Unionized Trucking Industry (Labor Relations and Public Policy Series, No 28) (reference)

  • Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor (Suny Series, Frontiers in Education) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Unionized

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Deserted mining town, completely boarded up, owned by Ford who closed it down rather than have it unionized. Twin Branch, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boarded-up homes in abandoned mining town. Twin Branch, West Virginia. Once very nice, owned by Ford. About four years ago when an attempt to organize it was made, Ford closed it down completely rather than have it unionized. Around 1000 men used to work. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unionized

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Worker congresses are held once or twice a year in all unionized enterprises. (references)

About 30 percent of the total work force is unionized, mostly in the formal sector, where about one-half the labor force is employed. (references)

Economic History

Bolivia

Most companies are unionized. (references)

Austria

About 50% of the work force is unionized. (references)

Singapore

About 15% of the work force is unionized. (references)

Political Economy

JAMAICA

No free zone factory is unionized. (references)

JAMAICA

The public sector is highly unionized. (references)

MEXICO

Mexican trade unionism is well developed; about 25 percent of the work force is unionized. (references)

Worker Rights

United Kingdom

Just under 30 percent of the workforce is unionized. (references)

Fiji

An estimated 55 percent of the workforce is unionized. (references)

Seychelles

Between 15 and 20 percent of the workforce is unionized. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unionized

"Unionized" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unionized" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4451,500

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Unionized

Expression using "unionized": unionized workers. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "unionized": non-unionized, well-unionized.

Containing "unionized": non-unionized worker.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unionized

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

non unionized unionized vs

2

check unionized valve

2

ammonia unionized

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unionized

Language Translations for "unionized"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

azote ammoniacal non ionisé (unionized ammonia), azote ammoniacal libre (unionized ammonia). (various references)

   

German

  

organisierte gewerkschaftlich. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ionizedunay

   

Portuguese

  

trabalhadores sindicalizados (unionized workers). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Unionized

Derivations

Words ending with "unionized": nonunionized. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Unionized" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indianized, unconcise, unionise. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unionized"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unionized" (pronounced yuw"nyunī'zd)
9y uw" n y u n ī' z dnonunionized.
6-y u n ī' z dimmunized.
5-u n ī' z dagonized, aluminized, antagonized, balkanized, carbonized, colonized, demonized, disorganized, galvanized, harmonized, hellenized, homogenized, humanized, lionized, mechanized, organized, patronized, reorganized, revolutionized, scrutinized, synchronized, unorganized, urbanized.
4-n ī' z dironized, modernized, recognized, unrecognized, westernized.
3-ī' z daccessorized, advertised, amortized, analyzed, anglicized, annualized, apologized, authorized, brutalized, burglarized, capitalized, capsized, caramelized, catalyzed, categorized, centralized, characterized, circumcised, civilized, collateralized, collectivized, colorized, commercialized, compromised, computerized, containerized, creolized, criminalized, criticized, crystallized, customized, decentralized, demilitarized, demobilized, democratized, demoralized, denationalized, denuclearized, departmentalized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, destabilized, digitized, disenfranchised, downsized, dramatized, editorialized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, equalized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, generalized, globalized, heroized, hospitalized, hydrolyzed, hypnotized, hypothesized, idealized, idolized, immobilized, improvised, industrialized, internalized, itemized, jeopardized, legalized, legitimized, liberalized, localized, magnetized, marginalized, materialized, maximized, memorialized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, mobilized, monopolized, motorized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, normalized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, paralyzed, pasteurized, penalized, personalized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, professionalized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, radicalized, randomized, rationalized, realized, reauthorized, recapitalized, regionalized, revitalized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scandalized, securitized, sensitized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, standardized, sterilized, stigmatized, stylized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, symbolized, sympathized, synthesized, tantalized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, trivialized, unamortized, unauthorized, undercapitalized, undersized, underutilized, unexercised, unrealized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, utilized, vandalized, vaporized, visualized, winterized.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unionized

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n-n-o-u-z"

-1 letter: unionize.

-2 letters: ionized, unzoned.

-3 letters: iodine, iodize, ionize, undine, undone.

-4 letters: dizen, donne, dozen, ennui, indie, indue, inion, inned, iodin, nudie, union, zoned.

-5 letters: deni, dine, done, doze, dune, neon, nide, nidi, nine, node, nodi, none, noun, nude, unde, undo, zein, zone.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-n-n-o-u-z"
 

+3 letters: nonunionized.

 

+4 letters: nonsubsidized.

 

+5 letters: dehumanization, unromanticized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unionized


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

55 6E 69 6F 6E 69 7A 65 64

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010101 01101110 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01111010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#122 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0069 006F 006E 0069 007A 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

558075818075927170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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