united mine workers

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   an industrial union of mine workers in North America

   SynonymsUnited Mine Workers of America

   Broaderindustrial union

Questions about united mine workers

What does united mine workers mean?

united mine workers means "an industrial union of mine workers in North America".

What is another word for united mine workers?

Close synonyms include United Mine Workers of America. 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 united mine workers a common word?

united mine workers 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.