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closed shop

NOUN
  1. a company that hires only union members

How To Use closed shop In A Sentence

  • Their purpose was to weaken the closed shop and to outlaw secondary picketing.
  • There was a closed shop policy in this company in the past.
  • Football must avoid the kind of closed shop mentality that permeates other sports.
  • For a public sector company many appointments look closed shop. Times, Sunday Times
  • Closed shops remain in many occupations, from taxi drivers to notaries and pharmacies. Times, Sunday Times
  • Quite frankly, there were as many closed shops in the City as there were in the trade unions. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are closed shops, crumbling apartment blocks and empty offices and schools, many pancaked from bombardment and pock-marked with bullet and shrapnel holes.
  • Their purpose was to weaken the closed shop and to outlaw secondary picketing.
  • Mr Fowler said it was an historic step, because the closed shop had existed for more than 100 years.
  • The Church of England is a closed shop. Times, Sunday Times
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