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SHAPE-UP

Pronunciation (US):

• SHAPE-UP (noun)
The noun SHAPE-UP has 1 sense:

1. a way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired

Familiarity information: SHAPE-UP used as a noun is very rare.

• SHAPE-UP (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("shape-up" is a kind of...):

employment; engagement (the act of giving someone a job)

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(Armenian proverb)
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(Danish proverb)

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