yellow-dog contract

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   a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade union

   Broaderlabor contract

Questions about yellow-dog contract

What does yellow-dog contract mean?

yellow-dog contract means "a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade union".

Is yellow-dog contract a common word?

yellow-dog contract 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.