UNION • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Union

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Union

noun

An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer. Synonyms: brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union.

The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War). Synonym: North. "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union" , "The North's superior resources turned the scale"

The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes. Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union. "The mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

The state of being joined or united or linked. Synonym: unification.

The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce). Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock. "God bless this union"

Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones. Synonym: conglutination.

A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations.

A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets. Synonyms: join, sum.

The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts.

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A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner).

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The act of making or becoming a single unit. Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting. "He looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"

adjective

Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War. Synonym: Federal. "Federal forces" , "A Federal infantryman"

Of trade unions. "Union negotiations" , "A union-shop clause in the contract"