unions

Meanings

Noun

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
• the state of being joined or united or linked
• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
• 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
• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
• 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
• plural of union

Verb

• third-person singular simple present indicative of union

Synonyms

brotherhood, conglutination, conjugation, coupling, join, jointure, labor union, marriage, mating, matrimony, North, pairing, sexual union, spousal relationship, sum, trade union, trades union, unification, Union, union, uniting, wedlock

Antonyms

disunion, separation