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.
tele-. word-forming element meaning far, far off, from Greek tele-, combining form of tele far off, afar, at or to a distance, related to teleos (genitive telos) end, goal, result, consummation, perfection, literally completion of a cycle, from PIE *kwel-es- (cf.