Term: american federation of labor: a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955
Candidate hypernym: federation: an organization formed by merging several groups or parties → 1
Candidate hypernym: genre painter: a painter of scenes from everyday life → 0
Candidate hypernym: overhand stitch: a stitch passing over an edge vertically → 0
Candidate hypernym: boron chamber: an ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons → 0
Candidate hypernym: cornstarch: starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener → 0
Candidate hypernym: syncope: (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') → 0
Candidate hypernym: false scorpion: small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion → 0
Candidate hypernym: post road: a road over which mail is carried → 0
Candidate hypernym: phlebotomist: someone who practices phlebotomy → 0
Candidate hypernym: hay: grass mowed and cured for use as fodder → 0
Candidate hypernym: advisee: someone who receives advice → 0