Meaning & Definition of Union in English
Union
noun
1. An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- "You have to join the union in order to get a job"
- union,
- labor union,
- trade union,
- trades union,
- brotherhood
2. The united states (especially the northern states during the american civil war)
- "He has visited every state in the union"
- "Lee hoped to detach maryland from the union"
- "The north's superior resources turned the scale"
- Union,
- North
3. The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- "The casual couplings of adolescents"
- "The mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
- coupling,
- mating,
- pairing,
- conjugation,
- union,
- sexual union
4. The state of being joined or united or linked
- "There is strength in union"
- union,
- unification
5. The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- "A long and happy marriage"
- "God bless this union"
- marriage,
- matrimony,
- union,
- spousal relationship,
- wedlock
6. Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- union,
- conglutination
7. A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
- "The soviet union"
- union
8. 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"
- union,
- sum,
- join
9. The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
- "Lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
- union
10. A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- union
11. The act of making or becoming a single unit
- "The union of opposing factions"
- "He looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
- union,
- unification,
- uniting,
- conjugation,
- jointure
adjective
1. Being of or having to do with the northern united states and those loyal to the union during the american civil war
- "Union soldiers"
- "Federal forces"
- "A federal infantryman"
- Union,
- Federal
2. Of trade unions
- "The union movement"
- "Union negotiations"
- "A union-shop clause in the contract"
- union