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- n an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
you have to join the union in order to get a job - n the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
- n the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- n the state of being joined or united or linked
there is strength in union - n the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
God bless this union - n healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- n a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
- n 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 - n the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
lightning produced an unusual union of the metals - n a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- n the act of making or becoming a single unit
the union of opposing factions - s being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
- a of trade unions
the union movement
union negotiations
a union-shop clause in the contract
- Georgians had already felt the Kremlin's determination to keep the union intact, when Soviet paratroopers armed with sharpened spades brutally dispersed a nationalist demonstration .
- And Callaghan has no cure Once again an epidemic of strikes by rapacious unions enfeebled Britain.
- John Edwards has worked hard for union support, but this year labor may be cautious about an endorsement.