union
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Definitions
                    Adjective
                    
                of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"
                
                    Adjective Satellite
                    
                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"
                
                    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"
                Synonyms
                    brotherhood
                    conglutination
                    conjugation
                    coupling
                    Federal
                    join
                    jointure
                    labor union
                    marriage
                    mating
                    matrimony
                    North
                    pairing
                    sexual union
                    spousal relationship
                    sum
                    trade union
                    trades union
                    unification
                    uniting
                    wedlock
            
            More General Terms
                    combination
                    combining
                    compounding
                    device
                    happening
                    healing
                    marital status
                    natural event
                    occurrence
                    occurrent
                    organisation
                    organization
                    political entity
                    political unit
                    set
                    sex
                    sex activity
                    sexual activity
                    sexual practice
                    state
            
            More Specific Terms
                    amphimixis
                    association
                    assortative mating
                    bigamy
                    coalescence
                    coalescency
                    coalition
                    colligation
                    combine
                    combining
                    common-law marriage
                    company union
                    concretion
                    confederacy
                    confederation
                    conglutination
                    conjugation
                    conjunction
                    connectedness
                    connection
                    craft union
                    cross
                    crossbreeding
                    crossing
                    cuckoldom
                    customs union
                    direct sum
                    disassortative mating
                    endogamy
                    enosis
                    exogamy
                    federation
                    fusion
                    hybridisation
                    hybridization
                    hybridizing
                    I.W.W.
                    inbreeding
                    industrial union
                    Industrial Workers of the World
                    inmarriage
                    interbreeding
                    intermarriage
                    IWW
                    junction
                    league
                    link
                    marriage
                    marriage of convenience
                    merger
                    misalliance
                    monandry
                    monogamousness
                    monogamy
                    open marriage
                    polygamy
                    reunification
                    reunion
                    service
                    servicing
                    sigeh
                    syncretism
                    tribalisation
                    tribalization
                    umbrella
                    unification
                    vertical union