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IWW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I
Synonyms:
I.W.W.; Industrial Workers of the World; IWW
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("IWW" is a kind of...):
brotherhood; labor union; trade union; trades union; union (an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer)
labor; labor movement; trade union movement (an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement)
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