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1. An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
   "you have to join the union in order to get a job";
   - labor union [US], trade union, trades union, brotherhood, labour union [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
   "the casual unions of adolescents";
   - coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, sexual union
    
3. The state of being joined, united or linked
   "there is strength in union";
   - unification
    
4. (law) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
   "God bless this union";
   - marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock
    
5. Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
   - conglutination
    
6. A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
   "the Soviet Union"
    
7. 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";
   - sum, join
    
8. The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
   "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
    
9. A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
    
10. The act of making or becoming a single unit
    "the union of opposing factions";
    - unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure

1. Of trade unions
   "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"

1. 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";
   - North

1. 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

Derived forms: unions

See also: closed, northern, organised [Brit], organized, unionised [Brit], unionized

Type of: America, combination, combining, compounding, device, happening, healing, marital status, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, organisation [Brit], organization, political entity, political unit, set, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice, state, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA

Antonym: disunion, nonunion, separation

Part of: labor [US], labor movement [US, Austral], labour [Brit, Cdn], labour movement [Brit, Cdn], trade union movement

Encyclopedia: Union, Kentucky Union, KY Union, Logan County, Illinois Union, Leeds and Grenville County, Ontario Union, Iowa Union, IA Union, Hudson County, New Jersey Union, Illinois Union, IL Union, ME Union, Missouri Union, Mississippi Union, NH Union, NE Union, Michigan Union, MS Union, MO Union, Merced County, California Union, Maine Union, CT Union, Burnett County, Wisconsin Union, Common Sense and Progress Union, California Union, Burnett County, WI Union, AL Union Union, Alabama Union, Al Union, Connecticut Union, Gaffney City and Rutherfordton Railroad Union, Essex County, Ontario Union, Guanacaste Union, Grenada Union, Elgin County, Ontario Union, Door County, Wisconsin Union, Door County, WI Union, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin Union, Eau Claire County, WI Union, Surigao del Norte Union, South Carolina Union, Vernon County, WI Union, University & Schools Club Union, SC μSA Union, SC Union, Rock County, Wisconsin Union, SC µSA Union, SC mSA Union, Vernon County, Wisconsin Union, Waupaca County, Wisconsin Union, Waupaca County, WI Union, Wisconsin Union, West Virginia Union, Washington Union, WA Union, Virginia Union, WV Union, WI Union, Nova Scotia Union, New York Union, OR Union, OH Union, New Jersey Union, Napa County, California Union, NJ Union, New Hampshire Union, Nebraska Union, Oh Union, Pierce County, Wisconsin Union, Pierce County, WI Union, Rock County, WI Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Paraguay Union, Ontario Union, Ohio Union, Oregon Union, Or