shopcraft
Americannoun
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any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
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the members of any such trade.
Etymology
Origin of shopcraft
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, the possibility of a crippling strike by six railroad shopcraft unions flickered anew, though on Capitol Hill, there were hopeful plans to draft legislation to handle the dispute.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ignoring a Labor Department plea for a seven-day delay, four shopcraft unions culminated more than a year of stop-and-go negotiations by striking the sprawling Union Pacific Railroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
While most railroad unions accepted 5% increases months ago, the Machinists and five other shopcraft unions held out for more.
From Time Magazine Archive
About the only hopeful development last week was an apparent end to the impasse between the railroads and six shopcraft unions.
From Time Magazine Archive
This treason calls forth an indignant exclamation, "Oh priestcraft, shopcraft, how do ye effeminate The minds of men!"
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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