Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun iww

1 sense of iww

Sense 1
Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W. -- (a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I)
       => union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood -- (an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job")
       => labor movement, trade union movement, labor -- (an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement)