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TUC

 
 
noun [S]

Definition

abbreviation for Trades Union Congress: an organization in the UK to which most trade unions belong: The TUC called on the government to ban smoking in all workplaces. The new measures were criticised in a recent TUC report.
→ Compare the AFL-CIO
(Definition of TUC noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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