Union (Noun)
Meaning 1
The state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 2
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".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 3
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".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 4
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 North's superior resources turned the scale".
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 5
Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 6
The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals".
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Nouns denoting natural events.
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Meaning 7
The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 8
A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 9
A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner).
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Meaning 10
An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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- The factory workers voted to form a union to negotiate better wages and benefits.
- Before he could get hired, he had to join the union and pay the initiation fee.
- The teacher's union was on strike for weeks, protesting the school board's budget cuts.
- Many companies require employees to join the union as a condition of employment.
- The construction worker had to get a union card before he could work on the building site.
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Meaning 11
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".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.