| open shop | |
| —n | |
| closed shop Compare union shop an establishment in which persons are hired and employed irrespective of their membership or nonmembership of a trade union | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
A business that employs both unionized and nonunionized labor.