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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as trade-union. See etymology of trade-union.

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Examples

  • Every broken strike in recent years, every legally plundered trades-union treasury, every closed shop made into an open shop, has driven the members of the working-class directly hurt over to socialism by hundreds and thousands.

    Revolution 2010

  • But another element in the trades-union situation must be reckoned with if trades-unionism is to be saved.

    Farm Ownership Linked With Trades Unions 2008

  • The corporation and the trades-union have forgotten that they are the creatures of the state.

    Markets and Morals 2006

  • The corporation and the trades-union have forgotten that they are the creatures of the state.

    Markets and Morals 2006

  • The corporation and the trades-union have forgotten that they are the creatures of the state.

    Markets and Morals 2006

  • Besides, Rosalind Wells was in Leeds talking to trades-union organisers for the Fabian Society.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • In a constituency which had much casual and no trades-union labour to speak of, the meeting would be one of those which enabled the intellectuals of the Party to get it ‘off their chests.’

    The White Monkey 2004

  • Besides, Rosalind Wells was in Leeds talking to trades-union organisers for the Fabian Society.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • When the overseer came through the room, no exultant look nor envious glance suggested anything unusual, for this band of "rag-pickers" had its honor, which it held to as closely as the most compact trades-union in the land.

    Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

  • With the view to masking their real object, they took advantage of the fact that the square and compass, the plumbline, etc., were symbols of speculative masonry in the temple form of Astral worship, they publicly claimed to be only a trades-union for the prosecution of the arts of architecture and operative masonry; but, among themselves, were known as Free and Accepted Masons or Freemasons.

    Astral Worship J. H. Hill

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