union

Noun
  1. An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer (synset 108249977)
    "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
    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. The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War) (synset 109074770)
    "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"
    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. The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes (synset 100848970)
    "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
    is a type of: sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice - activities associated with sexual intercourse
    subtypes:
    same as: conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union
  4. The state of being joined or united or linked (synset 114441799)
    "there is strength in union"
    is a type of: state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes
    subtypes:
    same as: unification
  5. The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) (synset 113987306)
    "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
    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. Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones (synset 113592568)
    is a type of: healing - the natural process by which the body repairs itself
    same as: conglutination
  7. A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations (synset 108321825)
    "the Soviet Union"
    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. A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets (synset 108015154)
    "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
    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. The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts (synset 107387877)
    "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
    is a type of: happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens
    subtypes:
  10. A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) (synset 104517110)
    is a type of: device - an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
  11. The act of making or becoming a single unit (synset 100382488)
    "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
    is a type of: combination, combining, compounding - the act of combining things to form a new whole
    subtypes:
    same as: conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting
Adjective
  1. Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War (synset 301610796)
    "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
    similar to: northern - in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
    same as: federal
  2. Of trade unions (synset 302483666)
    "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"
    similar to:

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