noun
United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928)
• Syn: ↑Big Bill Haywood, ↑William Dudley Haywood
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑labor leader, ↑socialist
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/hay"wood'/, n.
1. William Dudley ("Big Bill"), 1869-1928, U.S. labor leader: a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World; in the Soviet Union after 1921.
2. a male given name.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.