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open shop
noun
Definition 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
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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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