noun. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer you have to join the union in order to get a job |
noun. the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War) he has visited every state in the Union|Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union|the North's superior resources turned the scale |
noun. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes the casual couplings of adolescents|the mating of some species occurs only in the spring |
noun. the state of being joined or united or linked there is strength in union |
noun. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) a long and happy marriage|God bless this union |
noun. healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones |
noun. a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations the Soviet Union |
noun. a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets let C be the union of the sets A and B |
noun. the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts lightning produced an unusual union of the metals |
noun. a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) |
noun. the act of making or becoming a single unit the union of opposing factions|he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays |
adj. of trade unions the union movement|union negotiations|a union-shop clause in the contract |
adj. being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War Union soldiers|Federal forces|a Federal infantryman |
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