Definition of unions Unions
/juˈnjʌnz/ - [yunyunz] -
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Wiktionary 
- unions (Noun)
Plural of union.
Part of speech
🔤- unions, noun, plural of union.
WordNet
NounPlural: unions |
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| union - 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" | ||
| unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure | ||
| disunion the termination or destruction of union | ||
| compounding, combining, combination an occurrence that results in things being united | ||
| coalescence, coalescency, conglutination, coalition, concretion 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; "monetary unification precipitated the reunification of the German state in October 1990" | ||
| tribalisation, tribalization the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis | ||
| union - an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" | ||
| labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood | ||
| organisation, organization the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; "his organization of the work force was very efficient" | ||
| labor movement, trade union movement, labor an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | ||
| 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 | ||
| union - the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union" | ||
| unification | ||
| separation the act of dividing or disconnecting | ||
| state the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" | ||
| coalition, fusion the state of being combined into one body | ||
| connectedness, connection, link shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta" | ||
| colligation, junction, conjugation, conjunction the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis | ||
| association the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association" | ||
| marriage the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel" | ||
| union - a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union" | ||
| political entity, political unit a unit with political responsibilities | ||
| confederation, federation, confederacy the act of forming an alliance or confederation | ||
| enosis the union of Greece and Cyprus (which is the goal of a group of Greek Cypriots) | ||
| league an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | ||
| union - the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals" | ||
| happening, natural event, occurrent, occurrence an event that happens | ||
| amphimixis union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction | ||
| merger, unification, fusion the act of fusing (or melting) together | ||
| union - 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" | ||
| North | ||
| the states, u.s.a., united states of america, us, america, u.s., united states, usa North America and South America and Central America | ||
| northern situated in or coming from regions of the north; "the northern hemisphere"; "northern autumn colors" | ||
| union - healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones | ||
| conglutination | ||
| healing the natural process by which the body repairs itself | ||
| union - 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" | ||
| sum, join | ||
| set several exercises intended to be done in series; "he did four sets of the incline bench press" | ||
| union - a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) | ||
| union - 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, spousal relationship, wedlock | ||
| marital status the condition of being married or unmarried | ||
| jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | ||
| bigamy the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred | ||
| 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 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 having more than one spouse at a time | ||
| union - 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, sexual union | ||
| sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice, sex activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat" | ||
| 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 | ||
| hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, crossbreeding, interbreeding, cross, crossing (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 | ||
AdjectiveUnion, unioner, unionest |
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| union - of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract" | ||
| nonunion not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union; "nonunion carpenters"; "a nonunion contractor" | ||
| closed not open or affording passage or access; "the many closed streets made travel difficult"; "our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains" | ||
| union - 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" | ||
| Federal | ||
| northern situated in or coming from regions of the north; "the northern hemisphere"; "northern autumn colors" | ||
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Wiktionary
- union (Noun)
The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one. - union (Noun)
The state of being united or joined. - union (Noun)
That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league. - union (Noun)
A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes. - union (Noun)
The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets. - union (Noun)
The act or state of marriage. - union (Noun)
Sexual intercourse. - union (Noun)
A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time. - union (Noun)
A large, high-quality pearl.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- union (n.)
The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination. - union (n.)
Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord. - union (n.)
That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union. - union (n.)
A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together. - union (n.)
A large, fine pearl. - union (n.)
A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain. - union (n.)
A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection. - union (n.)
A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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union
The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes. -
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Of or pertaining to trade unions.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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union
ūn′yun, n. a uniting: that which is united or made one: something formed by the combination of parts or individual things or persons: concord: harmony in colour: agreement between parts: the state of wedlock: a device emblematic of union borne in the canton of a flag, the canton used separately as a flag, the union-jack: a combination as among workmen for class protection: several parishes united for joint support and management of their poor, also the workhouse for such: (pl.) textile fabrics made up of more than one kind of fibre, as of wool and cotton.—adj. Ūn′ioned, showing evidence of union.—n.pl. Ūnion′idæ, a family of lamellibranchiate molluscs represented in Britain by two genera, Ū′nio and Anodonta.—ns. Ūnionist, one who advocates or supports union, esp. an upholder of the Union and opponent of secession before the American Civil War, also one opposed to granting Home Rule to Ireland, whether a natural Conservative or one of the Liberals who fell away from Mr Gladstone on this question in 1886; Ūnion-jack, the national flag adopted by Great Britain and Ireland, consisting of a union of the crosses of St George, St Andrew, and St Patrick.—The Union, the legislative incorporation of England and Scotland in 1707, or of Ireland with both in 1801. [Fr. union—L. unio, -onis—unus, one.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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union
The national flag of Great Britain, on shore or afloat. It is a composition of the crosses of St. George of England, St. Andrew of Scotland, and St. Patrick of Ireland, the last having been brought in in 1801. It was formerly inscribed, "For the Protestant Religion and for the Liberty of England." It is in the upper canton of all British ensigns. At the main it is the proper flag of an admiral of the fleet; and was thus flown by Lord Howe at the battle of June 1, 1794.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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union
The national colors are called the union. When there is a blue field with white stripes, quartered in the angle of the American colors, that is, of the colors composed of red and white stripes, that blue field is called the union; and a small color of blue with white stars is called a union-jack.
Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary 🤡
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union
An ailing individual frequently troubled by scabs and liable to strike without warning.
Wikipedia 
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In education.
In the United States, the phrase more commonly refers to the building. The phrase "student government" or "student senate" is usually used when referring to the subject of the "Students' union" article.
Part of speech
🔤- union, noun, singular of unions.
- union, adjective.
