Union (
http://definr.com/Union)
adj 1: being of or having to do with the northern United States and
those loyal to the Union during the Civil War; "Union
soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
[syn:
Union,
Federal]
2: of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations";
"a union-shop clause in the contract" [ant:
nonunion]
n 1: an organization of employees formed to bargain with the
employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a
job" [syn:
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" [syn:
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" [syn:
coupling,
mating,
pairing,
conjugation,
sexual union]
4: the state of being united; "there is strength in union"
[ant:
separation]
5: state of being husband and wife; "a long and happy
marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn:
marriage,
matrimony,
wedlock]
6: healing process involving the growing together of the edges
of a wound or the growing together of broken bones [syn:
conglutination]
7: a political unit formed from previously independent people
or organizations; "the Soviet 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" [syn:
sum,
join]
9: the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning
produced an unusual union of the metals"
10: a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two
or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner
corner)
11: making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing
factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his
family for the holidays" [syn:
unification,
uniting]