big labor
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Large trade unions or labor unions collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or societal influence.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Some fear that Big Labor will one day form its own party and attempt to capture government."
- "Among U.S. city governments, few have been more strongly controlled by big labor than Minneapolis (pop. 560700)"
- "The political battles raging in states across America are cast as about whether big labor retains its considerable clout. . . . The reality is that the U.S. labor movement has steadily lost influence, politically, socially and economically."