closed shop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be labor union members as a precondition to employment.
  2. A facility that runs programs on behalf of others, giving them no oversight over execution but merely returning the output at the end.

Word forms

closed shop closed shops
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