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Meaning of closed shop | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be labor union members as a precondition to employment.
  2. A facility that runs programs on behalf of others, giving them no oversight over execution but merely returning the output at the end.
    historical

Examples

“[...] about 90 per cent of the locomotive staff belong to one trade union and 10 per cent to another smaller one or to none, for there is no such thing in Switzerland as a "closed shop".”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

closed source closed species closed syllable closed system closed time loop closed timelike curve

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