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union card
noun
- a card identifying one as a member of a particular labor union.
union card
noun
- a membership card for a trade union
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Word History and Origins
Origin of union card1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences
Many of you do not know that he holds a union card—the printers elected him to honorary membership more than a year ago.
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Turning from the applause, he introduced Ben Spence as "a labor lawyer, with a union card in place of a heart."
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But you—a union card dirtied in your pocket, you, a Judas to your kind—you got no place in a room with decent men.
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He didn't like the idea of calling his crew scabs for the engineer carried a union card.
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He could not get the last without a union card, he must take anything, and so he applied from store to store.
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