All 3 Uses
benevolent
in
Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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- If you want to join a union, join the Triangle Employees Benevolent Association.†
p. 73.2 *benevolent = kind, generous, or charitable
- Bella shivered and nodded, though she still didn't know what a union was; she certainly didn't know what an employees benevolent association was.†
p. 73.4
- We were forming a union, we had one hundred and fifty workers go to a secret meeting, but there were spies there, and our bosses said we couldn't have our own union, we could only join this fake union the bosses made up, the Triangle Employees Benevolent Association.†
p. 81.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)