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 -ome as used in molecular biology refers to a totality of some sort; it is an example of a neo-suffix formed by abstraction from various Greek terms in -ÏÎ¼Î±, a sequence that does not form an identifiable suffix in Greek.