of trade unions; the union movement; union negotiations; a union-shop clause in the contract'

an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; you have to join the union in order to get a job

[ Syn: labor union , trade union , trades union , brotherhood ]

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; he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays

[ Syn: unification , uniting , conjugation , jointure ]

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 Norths superior resources turned the scale

[ Syn: union , north ]

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

[ Syn: coupling , mating , pairing , conjugation , sexual union ]

the state of being joined or united or linked; there is strength in union

[ Syn: unification ]

the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); a long and happy marriage; God bless this union

[ Syn: marriage , matrimony , spousal relationship , wedlock ]

healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

[ Syn: conglutination ]

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

[ Syn: sum , join ]

the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; lightning produced an unusual union of the metals'

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

[ Syn: union , federal ]