syndical

[ sin-di-kuhl ]

adjective

1. of or relating to a union of persons engaged in a particular trade.
2. of or relating to syndicalism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of syndical¹

From French, dating back to 1860–65; syndic, -al ¹

Example Sentences

As for the new features, the syndical courts proposed by Laff�mas, they were not even put into practice.

From Project Gutenberg

On the 4th April some manufacturers and tradesmen had created the National Union of the Syndical Chambers, and taken for their programme, maintenance and enfranchisement of the Republic, acknowledgment of the municipal franchises of Paris.

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A commission of inquiry named by the Syndical Chambers was to draw up the statistics and the inventory of the deserted workshops to be given back into the hands of the workmen.

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The delegate demanded that the estimate of charges should specify the cost of labour, that the orders should by preference be given to the workmen's corporations, and the contracting prices fixed by arbitration between the commissariat, the Syndical Chamber of the corporation, and the delegate of Labour.

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Also the journals of the Commune and the delegates of the Syndical Chambers in vain summoned the electors to the ballot-box.

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