Dictionary entry
Unionist
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnjənɪst/
Pronunciation
/ˈjuːnjənɪst/
Myanmar Meaning
unionist မြောက်အိုင်ယာလန် ကို ဂရိတ် ဗြိတိန် အတွင်း ဆက်လက် တည်ရှိ စေလိုသူ။
Definition
unionist /'ju:niǝnÇst / n (က) အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢဝင္ (သို႔) အလုပ္ သမားသမဂၢကို ေထာက္ခံသူ။ (ခ) unionist ေျမာက္အိုင္ယာလန္ ကို ဂရိတ္ၿဗိတိန္အတြင္း ဆက္လက္တည္ရိွေစလိုသူ။ unionism /'ju:niǝnÇzǝm / n [U]
Examples
- ‘Wives of picket line unionists were recipients of anonymous correspondence apparently aimed at driving a wedge between them and their husbands
- with a view to ending the dispute in the company's favour.’
- ‘Still
- the Democrats are facing a continuing battle for the support of industrial unionists.’
- ‘And once again we have a community assembly of unionists
- clergy and civil rights activists taking a stand on high moral ground.’
- ‘A major bastion of support for the policy was in fact the union movement and unionists supported it because it helped keep out cheap labour.’
- ‘It's hard not to reach the conclusion that many unionists have effectively given up on successfully unionising the private sector
- and are therefore engaged in a desperate bid to hold onto the security of the public sector.’
- ‘As usual
- many protesters against economic globalisation in its present form will be unionists
- and ALP members.’
- ‘As unionists it is our duty to be involved in supporting people in those situations.’
- ‘The statistics also show that women unionists are significantly better off than their non unionised sisters earning on average $119 a week more.’
- ‘The auto unionists account for the largest of the confederation members.’
- ‘Firstly
- as a unionist and a member of a progressive union
- I fully support redeployment
- but you need to consider the time factor when you deal with it.’
- ‘The unionists and community collectively transformed the picket.’
- ‘This is the question many rank-and-file unionists often ask when their union leaderships sell their members short.’
- ‘Among the outrageous provision are proposals that would see unionists involved in legitimate industrial action locked up as terrorists.’
- ‘She urges academic unionists to move away from place-based approaches to organizing and embrace new ways of creating cyber-communities and worker collectivities.’
- ‘Sayles' movie tells the story of the obstacles that mining companies - and unionists - in West Virginia put in the way of unionisation through dividing Black and White workers.’
- ‘With the support of hundreds of unionists from across the movement
- they preserved their right to be in the collective.’
- ‘It hasn't made any concessions to unionism or unionists.’
- ‘And being a Communist or a unionist and stirring up the lower classes against their ‘betters’ is obviously right out.’
- ‘As of this day last week
- the majority of unionists withdrew that support.’
- ‘There is no groundswell in Britain for the Unionists in Northern Ireland.’