union
Noun
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is a type of: organisation, organization - a group of people who work togethersubtypes:
- 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
- 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
is a part of: labor, labor movement, trade union movement - an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement -
tells us about: northern - in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon linedomain region: america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa - 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 1776is an instance of: america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa - 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 1776has: free state - any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil Warsame as: north
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is a type of: sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice - activities associated with sexual intercoursesubtypes:
- 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
- cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding - (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
- service, servicing - the act of mating by male animals
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is a type of: state - the way something is with respect to its main attributessubtypes:
- coalition, fusion - the state of being combined into one body
- connectedness, connection, link - the state of being connected
- colligation, conjugation, conjunction, junction - the state of being joined together
- association - the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination
- marriage - a close and intimate union
- syncretism - the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy)
same as: unification -
referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authorityis a type of: marital status - the condition of being married or unmarriedsubtypes:
- bigamy - the state of 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 - the practice or state of 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 - the condition or practice of 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
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is a type of: healing - the natural process by which the body repairs itselfsame as: conglutination
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is a type of: political entity, political unit - a unit with political responsibilitiessubtypes:
- 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
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is a type of: set - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so usedsubtypes: direct sum - a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets
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subtypes:
- amphimixis - union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction
- fusion, merger, unification - an occurrence that involves the production of a union
- combine, combining - an occurrence that results in things being united
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is a type of: device - an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
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subtypes:
- coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination - 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
- tribalisation, tribalization - the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis
- umbrella - having the function of uniting a group of similar things
Adjective
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similar to: northern - in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon linesame as: federal
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