open shop
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nounDefinition of OPEN SHOP
: an establishment in which eligibility for employment and retention on the payroll are not determined by membership or nonmembership in a labor union though there may be an agreement by which a union is recognized as sole bargaining agent
First Known Use of OPEN SHOP
1903
Rhymes with OPEN SHOP
agitprop, barbershop, beauty shop, belly flop, blow one's top, body shop, bucket shop, carrottop, channel-hop, coffee shop, countertop, cover crop, curly top, double-crop, double-stop, drag-and-drop, Ethiop, gigaflop, glottal stop, intercrop, island-hop, lollipop, machine shop, malaprop, mom-and-pop, mountaintop, overtop, photo op, rent-a-cop, Ribbentrop, set up shop, soda pop, standing crop, suction stop, table-hop, tabletop, techno-pop, teenybop, turboprop, union shop, whistle-stop, window-shop
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