open shop

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open shop

A business or factory in which workers are employed without regard to union membership.

open shop

(Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) an establishment in which persons are hired and employed irrespective of their membership or nonmembership of a trade union Compare closed shop, union shop

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open shop - a company whose workers are hired without regard to their membership in a labor union

company - an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage"

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As Alpatych was driving out of the gate he saw some ten soldiers in Ferapontov's open shop, talking loudly and filling their bags and knapsacks with flour and sunflower seeds.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

On one of the opposite angles stood Squire Brown's stables and kennel, with their backs to the road, over which towered a great elm- tree; on the third stood the village carpenter and wheelwright's large open shop, and his house and the schoolmaster's, with long low eaves, under which the swallows built by scores.

Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context

He trotted off to the open shop of a kunjri, a low-caste vegetable-seller, which lay opposite the belt-tramway line down the Motee Bazar.

Kim by Kipling, Rudyard View in context

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