UNIONIZE

unionize, unionise, organize, organise

(verb) form or join a union; “The auto workers decided to unionize”

unionize, unionise

(verb) recruit for a union or organize into a union; “We don’t allow people to come into our plant and try to unionize the workers”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

unionize (third-person singular simple present unionizes, present participle unionizing, simple past and past participle unionized)

(ambitransitive) To organize workers into a union.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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Coffee Trivia

Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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