unionized

Joined the guild

Unionized has two meanings depending on pronunciation.

With stress on the second syllable (yoon-YUN-ized), it describes workers who have organized into a labor union: The factory workforce unionized last year, unionized teachers.

With stress on the first syllable (un-EYE-uh-nized), it's a chemistry term meaning not ionized—having no electrical charge: unionized molecules pass through cell membranes more easily.

labor

strike

Forceful impact or stoppage

negotiation · arbitration · grievance · shop steward · wages · benefits · contract · seniority · representation · labor rights

chemistry

un-ionized

Not electrically charged

dissociation · acid-base · equilibrium · pKa · charge · buffer · conjugate · titration · weak base · aqueous

Categories
Opposites
labor organization status

unionizednonunion

Without labor organization

ununionized · nonunionized · unorganized · at-will · open shop

chemistry (atomic state)

unionizedionized

Converted to charged particles

un-ionized · neutral · uncharged · covalent · molecular

worker collective power

unionizedunorganized

Lacking systematic arrangement

disorganized · atomized · individualized · powerless · unrepresented

Phrases
Family

unionize, unionizes, unionizing, nonunionized

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Top 100,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G