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union

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  • union  /ˈ jun jən/ ?  an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

    union meaning(s)  Add to My List

    1. (n) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
    2. (n) the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
    3. (n) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
    4. (n) the state of being joined or united or linked
    5. (n) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
    6. (n) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
    7. (n) a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
    8. (n) a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
    9. (n) the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
    10. (n) a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
    11. (n) the act of making or becoming a single unit
    12. (adj) being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
    13. (adj) of trade unions
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    Synonym(s)

    jointure, unification

    Antonym(s)

    separation, nonunion

    union usage(s) Create your Own

    1. And Callaghan has no cure Once again an epidemic of strikes by rapacious unions enfeebled Britain.
    2. John Edwards has worked hard for union support, but this year labor may be cautious about an endorsement.
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  • union army  the northern army during the American Civil War
  • union card  a card certifying membership in a labor union
  • union flag  national flag of the United Kingdom
  • union jack  national flag of the United Kingdom
  • union member  a worker who belongs to a trade union
  • union of burma  a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal
  • union of serbia and montenegro  a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe…
  • union of soviet socialist republics  a former communist country in eastern…
  • union representative  a representative for a labor union
  • union shop  a company allowed to hire nonunion workers on the condition that they will…
  • union soldier  a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War
  • union suit  an undergarment with shirt and drawers in one piece
  • unionidae  freshwater mussels found worldwide
  • unionisation  act of forming labor unions
  • unionise  recruit for a union or organize into a union
  • unionised  not converted into ions
  • unionism  /ˈ jun jə ˌnɪ zəm/ ?  the system or principles and theory of labor unions
  • unionist  /ˈ jun jə nəst/ ?  a worker who belongs to a trade union
  • unionization  /ˌ jun jə nə ˈzeɪ ʃən/ ?  act of forming labor unions
  • unionize  /ˈ jun jə ˌnaɪz/ ?  recruit for a union or organize into a union
  • unionized  /ˈ jun jə ˌnaɪzd/ ?  not converted into ions
  • uniovular  having a single ovule
  • uniovulate  having a single ovule
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