Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

closed shop

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English

Syllables
closed shop
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be labor union members as a precondition to employment.

noun

A facility that runs programs on behalf of others, giving them no oversight over execution but merely returning the output at the end.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

closed shops (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

agency shop open shop union shop

Questions

What does closed shop mean?
A business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be labor union members as a precondition to employment.

How to pronounce closed shop

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