congress of industrial organizations

1. 1.

   a federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955

   SynonymsCIO

   Broaderfederation

Questions about congress of industrial organizations

What does congress of industrial organizations mean?

congress of industrial organizations means "a federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955".

What is another word for congress of industrial organizations?

Close synonyms include CIO. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is congress of industrial organizations a common word?

congress of industrial organizations is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.