COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions

Synonyms:

collective agreement; labor agreement; labor contract

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("collective agreement" is a kind of...):

contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collective agreement"):

yellow-dog contract (a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade union)