union

What is the Definition of union?

Noun:

1. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
2. the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
3. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
4. the state of being joined or united or linked
5. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
6. healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
7. a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
8. a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
9. the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
10. a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
11. the act of making or becoming a single unit

Adjective:

1. being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
2. of trade unions

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