1. An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
   "you have to join the union in order to get a job";
   - labor union [US], trade union, trades union, brotherhood, labour union [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. The state of being joined, united or linked
   "there is strength in union";
   - unification
    
3. Act of joining or combining
   "the union of opposing factions";
   - unification, conjugation, jointure [archaic]
    
4. The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
   "God bless this union";
   - marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock
    
5. A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
   "the Soviet Union"
    
6. 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
    
7. The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
   "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
    
8. Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
   "The union of the fractured bone took several weeks";
   - conglutination
    
9. A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
   "The Union Jack in the corner of the Australian flag represents its historical ties to the United Kingdom"
    
10. The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
    "the casual unions of adolescents"; "The zoo's breeding program facilitated sexual union between endangered species";
    - coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, sexual union

1. Of trade unions
   "a union-shop clause in the contract"; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"

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

1. 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";
   - North

Derived forms: unions

See also: closed, northern, organised [Brit], organized, unionised [Brit], unionized

Type of: America, combination, combining, compounding, device, happening, healing, marital status, 'Merica, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, org [informal], organisation [Brit], organization, political entity, political unit, set, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice, state, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA

Antonym: nonunion

Part of: labor [US], labor movement [US, Austral], labour [Brit, Cdn], labour movement [Brit, Cdn], trade union movement

Encyclopedia: Union, Paraguay