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INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Industrial Workers of the World mean? 

INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD (noun)
  The noun INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD has 1 sense:

1. a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War Iplay

  Familiarity information: INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD used as a noun is very rare.


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INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

I.W.W.; Industrial Workers of the World; IWW

Hypernyms ("Industrial Workers of the World" is a kind of...):

brotherhood; labor union; trade union; trades union; union (an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer)

labor; labor movement; trade union movement (an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement)


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