Definitions for open-shop

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Open-Shop is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in open-shop (-ehnoopps).

Definitions for open-shop

noun

1. a factory, office, or other business establishment in which a union, chosen by a majority of the employees, acts as representative of all the employees in making agreements with the employer, but in which union membership is not a condition of employment.

Origin of open-shop

First recorded in 1895-1900

Examples for open-shop

This was spoken in the open shop, and many of the young men and women heard it.

Should the new handbook be printed by union labor at considerably greater expense, or by an open shop?

As in all Turkish cities, nearly every shop is an “open shop.”

But how avoid him while she had no other means of subsistence than working in an open shop?

You get breakfast, tend the baby, and wash and dress the other three children, and I'll go down and open shop.'

Take the question of labor unions and the closed or open shop.

It angered him not a little, and he pitched the papers back, saying, "I'm not going to open shop here."

It was in this discussion that the question of the closed shop and the open shop came before the conference.

For he was conscientious and must open shop with a fresh supply each day.

Employers of labor are justified in demanding the "open shop."