- a word derived from trade union.
- a variation of trade unionist.
Example Sentences
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It looked as if the C.I.O. was free at last to put up an honest, strictly trade-unionist front.
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Adenauer has wisely entrusted his embryonic defense ministry to a sober, militarism-proof trade-unionist, Theodor Blank.
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The organization got its start at the University of Michigan as a student offshoot of the League for Industrial Democracy, a socialist trade-unionist group.
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He has chosen 14 leading Negroes�ranging from poet to trade-unionist, conservative to Communist�to state the Negro case.
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It must be said that the Boers made war like gentlemen of leisure; they restricted their hours of work with trade-unionist punctuality.
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by Steevens, G. W. (George Warrington)