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open shop: see closed shop and open shop closed shop and open shop. The term "closed shop" is used to signify an establishment employing only members of a labor union. ..... Click the link for more information. . open shopA computing environment that allows users to program and run their own programs. Contrast with closed shop. open shop [′ō·pən ¦shäp] (computer science) A data-processing-center organization in which individuals from outside the data-processing community are permitted to implement their own solutions to problems. (industrial engineering) A shop in which employment is not restricted to members of a labor union. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As Alpatych was driving out of the gate he saw some ten soldiers in Ferapontov's open shop, talking loudly and filling their bags and knapsacks with flour and sunflower seeds. On one of the opposite angles stood Squire Brown's stables and kennel, with their backs to the road, over which towered a great elm- tree; on the third stood the village carpenter and wheelwright's large open shop, and his house and the schoolmaster's, with long low eaves, under which the swallows built by scores. He trotted off to the open shop of a kunjri, a low-caste vegetable-seller, which lay opposite the belt-tramway line down the Motee Bazar. |
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