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A small business or a room within a business establishment where metal is cut and shaped etc by machine tools...
motor driven
Driven or actuated by a motor esp by an individual electric motor An electric motor forms an integral part of many machine tools in numerous modern machine shops...
Shop
Shop, a place where thins are kept for sale, usually in small quantities, to the actual consumers. By (English) Shops Act, 1912, s. 19, 'shop' includes any premises where any 'retail trade or business' is carried on; 'retail trade or business' includes the business of a barber or hairdresser, but not the sale of programmes, etc., at places of amusement.A business establishment or place of employment; a factory, office, or other place of business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1384.The (English) Shops Act, 1934, deals with the employment of persons under eighteen years, repealing s. 2 of the (English) Shops Act, 1912; but the other provisions are unaffected. The 1934 Act, s. 1, provides that no young person (under eighteen) shall be employed for more than the normal maximum working hours, that is, forty-eight hours in any week; it makes restrictions on right employment, has special provisions as to the catering trade, the sale of accessories for Aircraft, motor vehicles and cycle...
union shop
union shop : a unionized business in which the employer by agreement is free to hire nonmembers as well as members of the union but union membership within a specified time (as 30 days) is a condition of continued employment compare agency shop, closed shop, open shop NOTE: State law determines whether a collective bargaining agreement can have a clause creating a union shop. Many states having right-to-work laws bar union shop agreements. ...
open shop
open shop : an establishment in which eligibility for employment and retention on the payroll are not determined by membership or nonmembership in a labor union though there may be an agreement by which a union is recognized as sole bargaining agent called also merit shop compare agency shop, closed shop, union shop ...
agency shop
agency shop : a shop in which the labor union serves as the bargaining agent for and receives dues from all employees in the bargaining unit regardless of union membership compare open shop, union shop ...
closed shop
closed shop : a business in which the employer by agreement hires and retains only union members see also Labor Management Relations Act in the Important Laws section compare open shop, union shop NOTE: Closed shops are illegal under the Labor Management Relations Act. ...
shop
shop : a business establishment : a place of employment see also closed shop, open shop, union shop ...
Machine
Machine, A device or apparatus consisting of, fined and moving parts that work together to perform some function, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 961.Machine, includes prime movers, transmission machinery and all other appliances whereby power is generated, transferred, transmitted or applied to a dangerous machine. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (i)]Machine, the meaning of the word 'machine' according to the dictionary in a popular and mechanical sense is '....... more or less complex combination of mechanical parts, as levers, gears, sprocket wheels, pulleys, shafts and spindles, ropes, chains, and bands, cams and other turning and sliding pieces, springs, confined fluids etc. together with the frame work and fastenings, supporting and connecting them, as when it is designed to operate upon material to change it in some pre-conceived and definite manner, Sales Tax Commissioner v. Ladha Mal, AIR 1971 SC 2221 (2222): (1971) 2 SCC 407....
Shop-cum-flat
Shop-cum-flat, the expression 'shop-cum-flat' does not always mean that the ground floor of the building is meant for shops and the first and the higher floors are residential accommodation in the building. The correct approach would be to refer to the context in which the expression appears and then construe it , Shabir Ahmad v. Sham Lal, AIR 2002 SC 1036 (1039): (2002) 3 SCC 118....
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