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Words people most associate with “union”:

  1. labor,
  2. jack,
  3. marriage,
  4. workers,
  5. 76

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Noun (11 meanings)

1. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer.

union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood

Example:
  • “you have to join the union in order to get a job”
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2. the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War).

Union, North

Examples:
  • “he has visited every state in the Union”,
  • “Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union”,
  • “the North's superior resources turned the scale”
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  • free state (noun) - any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War
Attribute:
  • northern (adjective) - in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
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3. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.

coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union

Examples:
  • “the casual couplings of adolescents”,
  • “the mating of some species occurs only in the spring”
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4. the state of being joined or united or linked.

union, unification

Example:
  • “there is strength in union”
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  • state (noun) - the way something is with respect to its main attributes
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  • syncretism (noun) - the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy)

5. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce).

marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock

Examples:
  • “a long and happy marriage”,
  • “God bless this union”
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  • bigamy (noun) - having two spouses at the same time
  • common-law marriage (noun) - a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony
  • cuckoldom (noun) - the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery
  • endogamy, intermarriage, inmarriage (noun) - marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
  • exogamy, intermarriage (noun) - marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
  • marriage of convenience (noun) - a marriage for expediency rather than love
  • misalliance (noun) - an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)
  • monandry (noun) - the state of having only one husband at a time
  • monogamy, monogamousness (noun) - having only one spouse at a time
  • open marriage (noun) - a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other
  • polygamy (noun) - having more than one spouse at a time
  • sigeh (noun) - a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship
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6. healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.

union, conglutination

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  • healing (noun) - the natural process by which the body repairs itself
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7. a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations.

union

Example:
  • “the Soviet Union”
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  • confederation, confederacy, federation (noun) - a union of political organizations
  • customs union (noun) - an association of nations to promote free trade within the union and set common tariffs for nations that are not members
  • enosis (noun) - the union of Greece and Cyprus (which is the goal of a group of Greek Cypriots)
  • league (noun) - an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action

8. a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets.

union, sum, join

Example:
  • “let C be the union of the sets A and B”
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  • set (noun) - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
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  • direct sum (noun) - a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets

9. the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts.

union

Example:
  • “lightning produced an unusual union of the metals”
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10. a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner).

union

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  • device (noun) - an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)

11. the act of making or becoming a single unit.

union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure

Examples:
  • “the union of opposing factions”,
  • “he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays”
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  • disunion (noun) - the termination or destruction of union
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Adjective (2 meanings)

1. being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War.

Union, Federal

Examples:
  • “Union soldiers”,
  • “Federal forces”,
  • “a Federal infantryman”
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  • northern (adjective) - in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line

2. of trade unions.

union

Examples:
  • “the union movement”,
  • “union negotiations”,
  • “a union-shop clause in the contract”
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  • nonunion (adjective) - not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union
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