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trade-union

a. (attributive of trade union lang=en nodot=1), ''noun''.

Usage examples of "trade-union".

The line of division is between deracinated intellectuals like Palme Dutt and trade-union men like Pollitt and Hannington.

There are, besides, the political associations, whose activity many workers consider as more conducive to general welfare than the trade-unions, limited as they are now in their purposes.

Brave words and muddled thinking cannot disguise the fact that Mr Orwell, like all the other supporters of the war, shipping magnates, coal owners, proletarians, university professors, Sunday journalists, trade-union leaders, Church dignitaries, scoundrels and honest men, is being swept along by history, not directing it.

These included three members of the Shadow Cabinet, two bishops, a monsignor, various lumi-naries of the reformed churches, five trade-union leaders, and two noted academics.