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union

English

🔊 being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
“Union soldiers”
🔊 of trade unions
“the union movement”
🔊 the act of making or becoming a single unit
“the union of opposing factions”
🔊 a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
🔊 the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
“lightning produced an unusual union of the metals”
🔊 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”
🔊 an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
“you have to join the union in order to get a job”
🔊 a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
“the Soviet Union”
🔊 the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
“he has visited every state in the Union”
🔊 healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
🔊 the state of being joined or united or linked
“there is strength in union”
🔊 the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
“a long and happy marriage”
🔊 the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
“the casual couplings of adolescents”