This labor union was formed by a group of unions within the AF of L who wanted to extend membership to all industrial workers, regardless of skill, race, or sex. It was headed by John L. Lewis, the president of United Mine workers Union.
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:-ive (Suffix) An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive. Origin: From -if (feminine -ive), from -ivus.
The suffix âwise is a versatile one. Apart from some fixed expressions where it means 'in the direction of', e.g. lengthwise, clockwise, anti-clockwise and useful function words such as likewise and otherwise, the suffix -wise can be added to a large number of words in the sense of âreferring toâ or âspeaking ofâ.