needle trades
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of needle trades
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Meyer London, also a lawyer, a Socialist and for 30 years the "good shepherd" of the needle trades.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, Mr. Dubinsky, who has always played second fiddle to Mr. Hillman in the needle trades, though his union is bigger, is now in a jurisdictional war with Mr. Hillman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Part i includes the early struggle of the needle trades workers to be born and survive as a union.
From Time Magazine Archive
Supreme Court Justice, who in his early days was a kind of compromising needle trades Henry Clay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before marriage she worked in the needle trades, was well and strong and had no knowledge of any particular nervous or mental disease in her family.
From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham
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