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walking delegate — ☆ walking delegate n. Historical BUSINESS AGENT … English World dictionary
walking delegate — noun a union representative who visits workers at their jobs to see whether agreements are observed • Hypernyms: ↑union representative * * * noun : a business representative of a labor union appointed to visit members and their places of… … Useful english dictionary
walking delegate — (formerly) an official appointed by a trade union to go from place to place to investigate working conditions, to ascertain whether union contracts were being fulfilled, and, sometimes, to negotiate contracts between employers and the union.… … Universalium
walking — n. & adj. in senses of WALK n. Phrases and idioms: walking delegate a trade union official who visits members and their employers for discussions. walking dictionary (or encyclopaedia) colloq. a person having a wide general knowledge. walking… … Useful english dictionary
walkingdelegate — walking delegate n. A trade union official appointed to inspect and confer with local unions or to serve as a representative of a union in dealings with an employer. * * * … Universalium
Wobbly lingo — is a collection of technical language, jargon, and historic slang used by the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies, for more than a century.Origin and usageWords and phrases in Wobbly lingo may have different meanings in… … Wikipedia
agent — Synonyms and related words: Charlie McCarthy, Federal, acid, acidity, acolyte, activator, actor, adjutant, administrator, advocate, agency, aid, aide, aide de camp, aider, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, amanuensis, amicus curiae, ancilla, anion … Moby Thesaurus
clerk — Synonyms and related words: Bible clerk, Bible reader, CA, CPA, DD, Doctor of Divinity, Federal, Holy Joe, abbe, academician, accountant, accountant general, acolyte, actuary, agent, almoner, amanuensis, anagnost, archivist, auditor, baggage… … Moby Thesaurus
Abraham Cahan — (July 7, 1860 August 31 1951) [http://www.britannica.com/eb/question 88375/51/Abraham Cahan died] . ] was a Russian American novelist and labor leader.He was born in Podberezhye, Lithuania, into a Jewish Orthodox family. His grandfather was a… … Wikipedia
The Day's Work — is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1898. There are no poems included between the different stories in The Day s Work , as there are in many other of Kipling s collections.The stories in it are: ** The… … Wikipedia
