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closed shop definition

☆ closed shop

  1. a factory, business, etc. operating under a contractual arrangement between a labor union and the employer by which only members of the union may be employed
  2. this arrangement

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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