unionize
verb (used with object)
to organize into a labor union; bring into or incorporate in a labor union.
unionized
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past participleof unionize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof unionize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
unionizeverb (used with object)to organize into a labor union; bring into or incorporate in a labor union. -
a word derived from
ionize.
Example Sentences
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Flying Food Group workers have been unionized since 2016.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The downbeat earnings come as Hyundai’s unionized auto workers in South Korea are staging partial walkouts for a second straight week to demand higher wages, doubling strike hours to four per shift this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
If Musk fails, he only earns his $54,080 salary, or about half of what unionized hotel housekeepers make in Manhattan.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
An analysis of Labor Department data from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, or EPI, found that the South added 214,000 unionized workers last year, compared with 249,000 for the rest of the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
We walked down the valley through the center of town and around a mountainside, past the small, tidy brick houses put up after the mines were unionized.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
