union

Meanings

Plural: unions

Noun

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
  • "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
• 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 act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
• the state of being joined or united or linked
  • "there is strength in union"
• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
  • "God bless this union"
• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
  • "the Soviet Union"
• 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"
• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
  • "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
• a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
• the act of making or becoming a single unit
  • "the union of opposing factions"
• The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
• The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
• Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
• A trade union; a workers' union.
• An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
• A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
• The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
• The act or state of marriage.
• Sexual intercourse.
• A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
• A large, high-quality pearl.
• An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.

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"

Adjective

• of trade unions
  • "the union movement"
  • "union negotiations"
  • "a union-shop clause in the contract"

Verb

• To combine sets using the union operation.

Adj

• Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
• federal.

Synonyms

brotherhood, coalition, combination, conglutination, conjugation, coupling, Federal, join, jointure, junction, labor union, marriage, mating, matrimony, North, pairing, sexual union, spousal relationship, sum, trade union, trades union, unification, unionized, uniting, wedlock

Antonyms

disunion, nonunion, separation

Related Words

intersection, reunification, reunion, unify, unity

Anagrams of union