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.
Used as a suffix, ese means a kind of dialect or specialized language. Doctors can be said to speak medicalese. Lawyers speak legalese. Etc. Ese in spanish means that. Este means this. It must have morphed somehow to mean that one or this one. Que pasa, ese? I've heard street Hispanics referred to as Ese's. Ese hombre means that man. really it kind of means that ese nino is that boy esa Nina is that girl you can't say esa nino, because esa is determing a girl, and nino means boy.