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31closed shop — n a company, factory etc where all the workers must belong to a particular ↑trade union …
32closed shop — noun count a business where all the workers must be members of a particular LABOR UNION …
33closed shop — closed′ shop′ n. a business establishment in which union membership is a condition of employment • Etymology: 1900–05, amer …
34closed shop — ► NOUN ▪ a place of work where all employees must belong to an agreed trade union …
35Union-closed sets conjecture — In combinatorial mathematics, the union closed sets conjecture is an elementary problem, posed by Péter Frankl in 1979 and still open as of 2008. A family of sets is said to be union closed if the union of any two sets from the family remains in… …
36Closed shop — A 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.[1] International Labour Organization… …
37closed shop — noun a company that hires only union members • Hypernyms: ↑company * * * I. noun : an establishment in which the employer by agreement hires and retains in employment only union members in good standing except that by some agreements when union… …
38Closed city — Central entry checkpoint to the closed city of Seversk A closed city or closed town is a settlement with travel and residency restrictions in the Soviet Union and some of its successor countries. In modern Russia, such places are officially known …
39closed shop — a factory, office, or other business establishment in which union membership is a condition of being hired as well as of continued employment. Cf. open shop. [1900 05, Amer.] * * * Arrangement whereby a company employs only workers who are… …
40Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Cap.: Moscow. Also called Russia, Soviet …
