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To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.
Bill Shorten

Meaning of "AWU" in the English dictionary

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WHAT DOES AWU MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of AWU in the English dictionary

The definition of AWU in the dictionary is Australian Workers' Union.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AWU

AWOL
awork
awrack
AWRE
awrong
awry
AWS
awsome
axal
axe
axe-breaker
axe-murderer
axebird
axel
Axelrod

WORDS THAT END LIKE AWU

CWU
GMWU
ILGWU
ILWU
TGWU

Synonyms and antonyms of AWU in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «AWU» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

AWU
1,325 millions of speakers

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UTA
570 millions of speakers

English

AWU
510 millions of speakers

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AWU
380 millions of speakers
ar

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AWU
280 millions of speakers

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AWU
278 millions of speakers

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UTA
270 millions of speakers

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AWU
260 millions of speakers

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UTA
220 millions of speakers

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AWU
190 millions of speakers

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AWU
180 millions of speakers

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AWU
130 millions of speakers

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AWU
85 millions of speakers

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AWU
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Awu
80 millions of speakers

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AWU
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

AWU
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

AWU
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ULA
65 millions of speakers

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RJR
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

AWU
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

UMA
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ΕΜΕ
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

AWU
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

AWU
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

årsarbeidsenhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of AWU

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AWU»

The term «AWU» is regularly used and occupies the 61.914 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about AWU

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QUOTES WITH «AWU»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word AWU.
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Bill Shorten
To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AWU»

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The making of the AWU
Based on union and pastoralists' records, this book is a comprehensive account of the events that produced the legends and offers many challenges to the historiography of the 1890s.
John Merritt, 1986
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Against All Odds: The History of the United Firefighters ...
CHAPTER TWO QUEENSLAND FIREFIGHTERS AND THE AWU, 1917-1962 Introduction The evening of 6 January was Brisbane's hottest night during the summer of 1958-1959. It was a 'scorcher'. Hot, dry south-westerlies pushed away the ...
Bradley Bowden, 2008
3
Australia's Unions: A Death Or a Difficult Birth?
As late as the split in the ALP in the mid fifties the General Secretary of the AWU, Tom Dougherty, made the comment that The AWU will not lightly sacrifice the principles of its Constitution forbidding the enrolment of communists or Asiatics'.
Jim Macken, James Joseph Macken, 1997
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Crow Word Lists: Crow-English and English-Crow Vocabularies
awu'ciaka-ta: (adv) from this time on awucim: (see "uce") awua, awu'c, awiis : ( adv) inside awu'-c ikya-kawe ! look inside ! awifa riarak' : you put something inside it i-ptsec karawUa ri-ak': he filled his pipe awu' riawak: I filled it awu'-rak' : a  ...
Robert Harry Lowie, 1960
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Company Towns: Corporate Order and Community
On 16 June, the AWU's Northern District Secretary Edgar Williams reported the alarming fact that nearly nine hundred of Isa's AWU members had resigned from the AWU and enrolled in a breakaway Mount Isa MineWorkers Association that ...
Neil White, 2012
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Radical Nationalism in British West Africa, 1945--1960
number of women that composed the AWU, or that were in Egbaland society. It was in these and other such contradictory contexts that the aims and democratic components of the AWU would be continually challenged and undermined.
Nike L. Edun Adebiyi, 2008
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Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in ...
In its early years as an independent union after World War I, AWU grew rapidly in Michigan and elsewhere in the Midwest. However, the Palmer Raids and the economic recession of 1920-1921 combined to weaken the organization, which ...
James J. Lorence, 1996
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Grasslands and Herbivore Production in Europe and Effects of ...
On average for the EU-25, Dairying specialists and Other grazing livestock specialists receive the highest RD support per AWU (€2 799 and €3 384/AWU, respectively; Table 55). It corresponds to 44% and 36% respectively of their average 1st ...
Christian Huyghe, Alex De Vliegher, Bert van Gils, 2014
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Inflectional Morphology in Optimality Theory
ox + {-en > -s} Priority N-Pl a. ox-en b. ox-en-s *! c. ox-s *! affirmative negative Masdar awu-n t-awu-n Optative awu-raj t-awu-raj Infinitive iji-z t-iji-z Imperfective iji-zwa iji-zwa-c Imperfective Participle iji-zwa-j t-iji-zwa-j Future iji-da iji-da-c ...
Zheng Xu, 2007
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Early Conference and Executive Reports of the Labor Party in ...
Lestrange and the AWU Miss Matthews said, on behalf of the Credentials Committee, that Mr Lestrange was accepted as a delegate of the Clerks' Union - the opposition by the AWU having been withdrawn. At this announcement there was ...
Michael Charles Hogan, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AWU»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term AWU is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bill Shorten's AWU records 'lost'
A number of employers allegedly paid the union dues of employees to the AWU under Mr Shorten, who was Victorian secretary from 1998 to ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
2
Umbono: Ziyofa izinsiwa kosala izibongo
UNhlaka Mthethwa uthe: Awu kodwa ngobaba wami madoda, mhlaba ... UThulile BrownEyes Sokhela uthe: Awu kwanzima ngeSoul brothers, ... «News24, Jul 15»
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Bill Shorten and Tony Abbott hit by popularity nosedive: Fairfax …
... for Mr Shorten and Mr Abbott, in which the opposition leader has faced questions about his time at the AWU and the prime minister has faced ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
4
Federal Court fines CFMEU and official $24000 for abuse
When a site representative said he should raise the matter with Fair Work Australia, Mr Upton replied: “That's the AWU way; we don't do things ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
5
Esso, AWU enterprise bargaining negotiations stall as talks fail to …
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) says it has reached a stalemate with gas company Esso over a new enterprise bargaining agreement for ... «ABC Local, Jul 15»
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Labor frontbencher attacks unions inquiry before Bill Shorten …
And he pointed to the handling of one of the witnesses who testified against Gillard about a so-called AWU “slush fund” set up in the 1990s. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Mark Latham claims the trade union royal commission has missed …
Last week Collier said she expected the royal commissioner, Dyson Heydon, to label "payments received during Shorten's term" at the AWU as ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
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Watering your lawn once a week could be a permanent restriction in …
Austin Water assistant director Daryl Slusher said AWU will careful getting out of the drought and referenced the year 1952 as an example of a ... «KXAN.com, Jul 15»
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Documents show AWU kept Chiquita workers in the dark
The meeting was attended by AWU organiser Frank Leo, Chiquita's general manager Stephen Little, human resources manager Joe Agostino ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
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Fitch Rates Austin's (TX) Water and Wastewater Rev Rfdg Bonds 'AA …
STRONG SERVICE AREA: AWU provides water and wastewater treatment ... the very modest portion the bonds that make up AWU's and Austin ... «MarketWatch, Jun 15»

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