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closed shop
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be labor union members as a precondition to employment.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a company that hires only union members
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A pre-entry closed shop (or simply closed shop ) is a form of union security agreement under which the employer agrees to hire union members only, and employees must remain members of the union at all times in order to remain employed. This is different ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Herein lies the crucial difference between open shop and closed shop monopoly union models. ▪ It was the last closed shop in Britain, he said, and it had to go. ▪ Tebbit found himself unable to outlaw the closed shop entirely. ...
Usage examples of closed shop.
I took up my position outside the closed shop, looked back toward our store, and ascertained that Matzerath was inside.
Thus it was characteristic of Big James to ask Edwin to be waiting for him at the back gates in Woodisun Bank when he might just as easily have met him at the side door by the closed shop in Wedgwood Street.
If this group's controlled by a closed shop, then I'm not interested, because however good the deal is, the unions could still bankrupt me within months.
Kaederman spun her against the side of a closed shop, snarling and backhanding her brutally.
A weaker company might have closed shop in shame, but Navegar's assembly line never missed a beat.
All of them work at the docks but only two of them are dockers, guys who actually load and unload cargo, that being a tightly closed shop and one that Volkov's local Party branch has been well dug into for generations.
When I was warmed, I again went down, got four cans from other motors, and drove away -- to Woolwich, as I thought: but instead of crossing the river by Blackfriars, I went more eastward, and, having passed into Cheapside, which was impassable, unless I crept, was going to turn back, when I observed a phonograph-shop, into which I got by a side-door, seized by curiosity to hear what I might hear: so I put one, with a lot of records, into the car, for there was still a strong peach-odour in this closed shop which displeased me.