union

n. act of uniting; unification or two or more parties (i.e. countries, states, companies, people, etc.); workers' association; federation; amalgamation; marriage; reproductive coupling; device which fits two pieces together

n. northern states in the American Civil War; armed forces of the northern states in the American Civil War; United States

Union generally refers to two or more things joined into one, such as an organization of multiple people or organizations, multiple objects combined into one, and so on. the term comes from the Latin word Ulius. The term may mean: In politicsThe Union, refers to the federation that is the United States, usually in the context of the American Civil WarAct of Union (could also refer to the constitutional result of that legislation, the United Kingdom)African Union, an inter-governmental organization in AfricaEuropean Union, an inter-governmental organization in EuropeGovernment of India, known officially as the Union GovernmentPersonal union, a group of separate, independent states that share the same monarchPolitical union, a type of state composed of smaller statesReal union, an intermediate step between personal and political union of statesSoviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist RepublicsThe Union Army, the army of the United States in the Civil WarThe Union (political coalition) (l'Unione), a twenty-first century Italian political coalitionUnionist Party (Canada), known when in power as the Union GovernmentUnited States Republican Party, known as the Union Party during the 1864 electionTrade union, labor union, employment
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The UNION of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property, UNION or UEPIP, is a European association of practitioners in the field of intellectual property. It was founded in 1961 under the name was "UNION of European Patent Attorneys".
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Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) North
(hypernym) United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.
(part-meronym) free state
(attribute) northern
(classification) United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.
Adjective
1. being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
(synonym) Federal
(similar) northern

Noun
1. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
(synonym) labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood
(hypernym) organization, organisation
(hyponym) industrial union, vertical union
(part-holonym) labor movement, trade union movement, labor
(derivation) unionize, unionise
2. 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"
(synonym) coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, sexual union
(hypernym) sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
(hyponym) assortative mating
3. the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"
(synonym) unification
(antonym) separation
(hypernym) state
(hyponym) coalition, fusion
4. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
(synonym) marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock
(hypernym) marital status
(hyponym) bigamy
(classification) law, jurisprudence
5. healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
(synonym) conglutination
(hypernym) healing
6. a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"
(hypernym) political unit
(hyponym) confederation, confederacy, federation
7. 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"
(synonym) sum, join
(hypernym) set
(hyponym) direct sum
8. the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
(hypernym) happening, occurrence, natural event
(hyponym) amphimixis
9. a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
(hypernym) device
10. 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"
(synonym) unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure
(antonym) disunion
(hypernym) combination, combining, compounding
(hyponym) coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination
(derivation) unify, unite, merge
Adjective
1. of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"
(antonym) nonunion
(similar) closed(a)

n. union, society, league, association, federation, amalgamation

n. union, unity; association, conjunction