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sweetheart agreement

sweetheart agreement (plural sweetheart agreements)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. agreement suiting some but not others: an arrangement arrived at secretly to benefit some at the expense of the rest, especially an industrial agreement between union and management representatives that is not in the workers' best interest

2. Australia industrial agreement without arbitration: in industrial relations, an agreement reached through direct discussions between workers and their employer without recourse to arbitration

[< the privileged treatment of one party]
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