needle trades
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of needle trades
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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One of the most informative sections of Tailor's Progress describes in great detail the connections between the needle trades and the underworld.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meyer London, also a lawyer, a Socialist and for 30 years the "good shepherd" of the needle trades.
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
And between Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky there is no lost love, although at the C. I. 0. convention last October the two leaders of the needle trades made a brave effort to demonstrate harmony.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was one of these coming under the protocol, covering the Ladies' Garment Workers, in so many branches, which was agreed to after the strikes in the needle trades of the winter of 1913.
From The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry
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