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Union   /jˈunjən/   Listen
Union

noun
1.
An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer.  Synonyms: brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union.
2.
The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War).  Synonym: North.  "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union" , "The North's superior resources turned the scale"
3.
The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.  Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union.  "The mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
4.
The state of being joined or united or linked.  Synonym: unification.
5.
The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce).  Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock.  "God bless this union"
6.
Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.  Synonym: conglutination.
7.
A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations.
8.
A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets.  Synonyms: join, sum.
9.
The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts.
10.
A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner).
11.
The act of making or becoming a single unit.  Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting.  "He looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
adjective
1.
Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War.  Synonym: Federal.  "Federal forces" , "A Federal infantryman"
2.
Of trade unions.  "Union negotiations" , "A union-shop clause in the contract"



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"Union" Quotes from Famous Books



... for though I should have liked to give the word, I knew that it would not only have been madness, but disobedience of orders. My duty was to take care of the boat, and this I was doing by having it rowed out beyond stone-throwing reach, with the Union Jack waving astern; and as soon as the stones fell short, and only splashed the water yards away, I had the grapnel dropped overboard, and we swung to it, ...
— Blue Jackets - The Log of the Teaser • George Manville Fenn

... in which as in every other industry union is strength.... Every farmer should belong to a co-operative society.... Small societies like small farmers, must" (in their turn) "co-operate.... The word 'farmers' is intended to include all those who cultivate the land. In this sense allotment holders are farmers, and I trust ...
— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy

... walls of Jerusalem;'—at that much-loved word, the light of the blue eyes once more beamed out, and he spoke again. 'Jerusalem! On the faith of a dying king, it was my earnest purpose to have composed matters here into peace and union, and so to have delivered Jerusalem. But the will of God be done, since He saw ...
— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge

... sufficient in itself to give full employment to the senate, besides the sudden defection of the Lucanians, and the Tarentines, the promoters of the defection, [another source of uneasiness] was added in a union formed by the state of the Vestinians with the Samnites. Which event, though it continued, during the present year, to be the general subject of conversation, without coming under any public discussion, appeared so important to the consuls of the year following, Lucius ...
— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius

... which was designed to limit the jurisdiction of the United States courts. Some of the strongest advocates of this amendment were men who, although living in Northern States, were unfriendly to the Union, and who, since the war, have been continuously aggressive in their efforts to place limitations upon national power. Mr. Robinson was a member of the Judiciary Committee and spoke upon the bill. His speech upon this measure ...
— Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 4, January, 1885 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various


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