stickeringn.
/ˈstɪk(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstɪk(ə)rɪŋ/ 1. U.S. regional (Illinois). In mining: the fact or practice of paying or receiving wages at a reduced rate in advance of the regular pay day, typically in the form of credit notes or tokens (see sticker n.2 7). Now rare.Chiefly in the context of efforts by unions to discourage or outlaw the practice among their members.
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1913 Proc. 24th Ann. Convent. United Mine Workers Amer. 15/2 Paying ten per cent through stickering..means..that the man who does it has..turned that much of his wages over to the company.
1914 Joint Conf. Illinois Coal Operators 182/2 There has never been a sticker issued at our office since I have been here, yet stickering is going on.
1924 Atlantic Monthly July 10/2 ‘Stickering’ is discounting wages and drawing them in advance of the regular pay-day.
2. The action of affixing a sticker or stickers to something. Also: stickers collectively.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun]
labelling1732
ticketing1844
stickering1966
1966 Harvard Law Rev. 79 1346 This provision has been supplemented by administrative techniques of ‘stickering’ or amending.
1977 Periodical 40 196 Nothing vexes me more than to go into a bookshop and find not just one price sticker on the book jacket, increasing the price, but sometimes two or more... The stickering is a burdensome business.
1993 Eng. Today July 7/2 Stickering makes the environment a billboard on which to advertise one's views.
2004 N. Barham Dis/Connected 67 From the outside, graffiti, stickering, etching, etc might just be..another product of a bored, thoughtless, destructive generation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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