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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 — noun Date: 1886 a labor union representative appointed to visit members and their places of employment, to secure enforcement of union rules and agreements, and at times to represent the union in dealing with employers … New Collegiate Dictionary
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
