COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collective agreement mean? 

• COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT (noun)
  The noun COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT has 1 sense:

1. contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions

  Familiarity information: COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

collective agreement; labor agreement; labor contract

Hypernyms ("collective agreement" is a kind of...):

contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collective agreement"):

yellow-dog contract (a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade union)