closed
- adjective
- /kloʊzd/
- Specialized
:
que exige afiliación sindical
- Many closed shops are unionized.
Examples
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Many companies have a closed shop policy, meaning all employees must join the union.
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The union requires that all closed shops pay dues.
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Labor laws sometimes restrict the creation of closed workplaces.
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Many workers appreciated the security of employment in a closed environment.
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The factory became a closed shop, only hiring members of the union.
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Under the closed shop agreement, workers who are not union members cannot be hired.
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The factory operates under a closed union system, ensuring all staff are part of the labor organization.
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To do something easily without thinking because you trust or know it well
Compounds
A system of cameras and monitors that records and shows images for security, not for public broadcast
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7.2
An election to choose a party candidate in which only registered members of the party can vote
- Specialized
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5.1
A system that uses feedback to keep things like temperature at the right level
- Specialized
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9.9
A model of the universe whose space curves and contains enough matter to stop and reverse its expansion
- Specialized
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7.2
A company that sells a set number of shares that trade on the stock market
- Specialized
A curve with no endpoints that comes back to its starting point, like a circle
A plant with blue or purple flowers shaped like a tube that stay mostly closed
- Specialized
A sudden eye condition when the colored part blocks fluid leaving the front of the eye, raising eye pressure quickly
- Specialized
A word from a small fixed set that helps show grammar, like in or and
- Specialized
A company that issues a fixed number of shares which are traded on a stock market
- Specialized
A company whose shares are owned by a small group and not sold to the public
- Specialized
Heart surgery done through a small cut without opening the chest
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A control system that uses information from sensors to adjust itself automatically
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A system that recovers, cleans, and reuses materials to avoid waste
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A curved line on a flat surface that makes a closed loop without crossing itself, like a circle
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Etymology
The phrase closed shop uses closed from the old Latin claudere 'to shut', meaning the workplace is shut to people who are not union members, so only certain workers can be hired.