needle trades

American  

plural noun

1. the occupations and organizations involved in the manufacture of clothing.

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Etymology

Origin of needle trades

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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

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

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