union

1. is a type of: organisation, organization - a group of people who work together
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union
2. tells us about: northern - in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
   domain 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 1776
   is 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 1776
   has: free state - any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War
   same as: north
3. is a type of: sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice - activities associated with sexual intercourse
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union
4. is a type of: state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes
   subtypes:

   • 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
5. referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
   is a type of: marital status - the condition of being married or unmarried
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock
6. is a type of: healing - the natural process by which the body repairs itself
   same as: conglutination
7. is a type of: political entity, political unit - a unit with political responsibilities
   subtypes:

   • 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
8. is a type of: set - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
   subtypes: direct sum - a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets
   same as: join, sum
9. is a type of: happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens
   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
10. is a type of: device - an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
11. is a type of: combination, combining, compounding - the act of combining things to form a new whole
    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
    same as: conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting

1. similar to: northern - in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
   same as: federal
2. similar to:

   • closed - requiring union membership
   • organised, organized, unionised, unionized - being a member of or formed into a labor union

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