union
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(s) 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
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(a) of trade unions
- the union movement
- union negotiations
- a union-shop clause in the contract
Nouns
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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
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(n) 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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(n) 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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(n) the state of being joined or united or linked
- there is strength in union
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(n) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- a long and happy marriage
- God bless this union
- (n) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones conglutination,
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(n) a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
- the Soviet Union
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(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
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(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)
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(n) 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