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SHAPE-UP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("shape-up" is a kind of...):
employment; engagement (the act of giving someone a job)
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