| union | | |
| n. (group) | 1. brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union, union | an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer.; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" |
| ~ organization, organisation | a group of people who work together. |
| ~ industrial union, vertical union | a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft. |
| ~ craft union | a labor union whose membership is restricted to workers in a particular craft. |
| ~ company union | a union of workers for a single company; a union not affiliated with a larger union. |
| ~ labor movement, trade union movement, labor | an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement. |
| ~ i.w.w., industrial workers of the world, iww | a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I. |
| n. (location) | 2. north, union | 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" |
| ~ america, the states, u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa, u.s. | North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776. |
| ~ america, the states, u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa, u.s. | North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776. |
| ~ free state | any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War. |
| n. (act) | 3. conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union | 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" |
| ~ sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice | activities associated with sexual intercourse.; "they had sex in the back seat" |
| ~ assortative mating | mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating. |
| ~ disassortative mating | mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random mating. |
| ~ crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding, cross, crossing | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids. |
| ~ inbreeding | the act of mating closely related individuals. |
| ~ servicing, service | the act of mating by male animals.; "the bull was worth good money in servicing fees" |
| n. (state) | 4. unification, union | the state of being joined or united or linked.; "there is strength in union" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| ~ coalition, fusion | the state of being combined into one body. |
| ~ connectedness, connection, link | the state of being connected.; "the connection between church and state is inescapable" |
| ~ colligation, conjugation, conjunction, junction | the state of being joined together. |
| ~ association | the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination.; "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break" |
| ~ marriage | a close and intimate union.; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas" |
| ~ syncretism | the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy).; "a syncretism of material and immaterial theories" |
| n. (state) | 5. marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union, wedlock | the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce).; "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ marital status | the condition of being married or unmarried. |
| ~ bigamy | having two spouses at the same time. |
| ~ common-law marriage | a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony. |
| ~ endogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage | marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law. |
| ~ exogamy, intermarriage | marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law. |
| ~ marriage of convenience | a marriage for expediency rather than love. |
| ~ misalliance | an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage). |
| ~ monandry | the state of having only one husband at a time. |
| ~ monogamousness, monogamy | having only one spouse at a time. |
| ~ open marriage | a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other. |
| ~ cuckoldom | the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery. |
| ~ polygamy | having more than one spouse at a time. |
| ~ sigeh | a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship; can last from a few minutes to 99 years.; "sigeh legally wraps premarital sex in an Islamic cloak" |
| n. (process) | 6. conglutination, union | healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones. |
| ~ healing | the natural process by which the body repairs itself. |
| n. (group) | 7. union | a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations.; "the Soviet Union" |
| ~ confederacy, confederation, federation | a union of political organizations. |
| ~ enosis | the union of Greece and Cyprus (which is the goal of a group of Greek Cypriots). |
| ~ league | an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action. |
| ~ customs union | an association of nations to promote free trade within the union and set common tariffs for nations that are not members. |
| ~ political entity, political unit | a unit with political responsibilities. |
| n. (group) | 8. join, sum, 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" |
| ~ set | a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used.; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" |
| ~ direct sum | a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets. |
| n. (event) | 9. union | the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts.; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals" |
| ~ happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | an event that happens. |
| ~ amphimixis | union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction. |
| ~ fusion, unification, merger | an occurrence that involves the production of a union. |
| ~ combining, combine | an occurrence that results in things being united. |
| n. (artifact) | 10. union | a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner). |
| ~ device | an emblematic design (especially in heraldry).; "he was recognized by the device on his shield" |
| n. (act) | 11. conjugation, jointure, unification, union, uniting | 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" |
| ~ compounding, combining, combination | the act of combining things to form a new whole. |
| ~ coalescence, coalescency, conglutination, coalition, concretion | the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts. |
| ~ reunification, reunion | the act of coming together again.; "monetary unification precipitated the reunification of the German state in October 1990" |
| ~ tribalisation, tribalization | the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis. |
| ~ umbrella | having the function of uniting a group of similar things.; "the Democratic Party is an umbrella for many liberal groups"; "under the umbrella of capitalism" |
| adj. | 12. federal, union | 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" |
| ~ northern | in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line.; "Northern liberals"; "northern industry"; "northern cities" |
| adj. | 13. union | of trade unions.; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract" |
| ~ closed | requiring union membership.; "a closed shop" |
| ~ organised, unionised, unionized, organized | being a member of or formed into a labor union.; "organized labor"; "unionized workers"; "a unionized shop" |
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