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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest federation of North American labor unions; formed in 1955
Synonyms:
AFL-CIO; American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations" is a kind of...):
federation (an organization formed by merging several groups or parties)