单词 | union boss |
释义 | > as lemmasunion boss union boss n. (a) (originally) a manager who is a member of or recognizes a trade union; (b) (later) the leader of a trade union or a local branch of a union (now the usual sense). ΚΠ 1882 N.Y. Times 4 July 5/4 Several journeymen [sc. horse-shoers] stating that the union bosses were not willing to give them work. 1889 St. James's Gaz. 5 Dec. 3/2 To make..the Union ‘boss’..supreme in industrial affairs. 1901 Thirty-sixth Ann. Rep. (Bricklayers' & Masons' Internat. Union Amer.) 6 Fred Hill was in favor of working for none but Union bosses. 1990 R. Critchfield Among British vii. 459 Labour, with all its out-of-date socialist hang-ups, class hostilities,..and old-time union bosses. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Apr. c23/3 Protector of working women, faithful to those who have faith in her, she is as tough and demanding as a union boss. < as lemmas |
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