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say it: ay-ef-EL
afl is a noun meaning "a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955". It is pronounced /ˌeɪˌɛˈfɛl/ — ay-ef-EL. It carries one recorded sense.
a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for afl come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.