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collective bargaining

collective bargaining noun: a method of negotiation in which employees negotiate as a group with their employers, usually via a trade union.

Noun

collective bargaining (uncountable)

  1. A method of negotiation in which employees negotiate as a group with their employers, usually via a trade union.
    • Educators in a Washington state school district went on strike Friday because the teachers’ union and the Ridgefield School District (RSD) remain at loggerheads following months of collective bargaining negotiations.2022 September 9, Paradise Afshar, “Washington state school district goes on strike”, in CNN

collective bargaining meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Tagalog

collective bargaining in Tamil

பொதுக்கூட்டுப்பேரம்

collective bargaining in Kannada

ಸಾಮೂಹಿಕ ಚೌಕಾಸಿ, ಸಮಷ್ಟಿ ಸಂಧಾನ

collective bargaining in Tagalog

trade unions: negotiation emplyee/emplyer
kolektibong tawaran

Origin of collective bargaining

Coined by Beatrice Webb in 1891.

Words formed from collective bargaining

Questions about collective bargaining

What does collective bargaining mean?
Collective bargaining means a method of negotiation in which employees negotiate as a group with their employers, usually via a trade union.
What is collective bargaining in Tamil?
Collective bargaining in Tamil is பொதுக்கூட்டுப்பேரம். See Collective bargaining meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is collective bargaining?
Collective bargaining is a noun.

Words near collective bargaining in the dictionary

  1. collections
  2. collective
  3. collective action
  4. collective agreement
  5. collective agreements
  6. collective bargaining
  7. collective buying
  8. collective call sign
  9. collective call signs
  10. collective fruit
  11. collective fruits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collective bargaining (page history and authors); collective bargaining (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collective bargaining (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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