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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See union shop.

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  1. n. A business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be union members as a precondition to employment.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a company that hires only union members

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  • “In so far as the closed shop is necessary as a means to reasonable conditions of employment, it will not be immoral, as against either the non-unionist or the employer.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

  • “Every broken strike in recent years, every legally plundered trades-union treasury, every closed shop made into an open shop, has driven the members of the working-class directly hurt over to socialism by hundreds and thousands.”

    Revolution

  • “But the sign over the closed shop simply read Nihonto.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set

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