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AFL-CIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does AFL-CIO mean? 

AFL-CIO (noun)
  The noun AFL-CIO has 1 sense:

1. the largest federation of North American labor unions; formed in 1955play

  Familiarity information: AFL-CIO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AFL-CIO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest federation of North American labor unions; formed in 1955

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

AFL-CIO; American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

Hypernyms ("AFL-CIO" is a kind of...):

federation (an organization formed by merging several groups or parties)


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