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Noun union has 11 senses
- union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood - an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
--1 is a kind of organization, organisation
--1 is a part of labor movement, trade union movement, labor
--1 has particulars:
- Union, North - 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"
--2 is a kind of United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.
--2 has parts: free state
- coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual 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"
--3 is a kind of sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
--3 has particulars:
- union, unification - the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"
--4 is a kind of state
Antonyms: separation
--4 has particulars:
- marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
--5 is a kind of marital status
--5 has particulars:
- union, conglutination - healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
--6 is a kind of healing
- union - a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"
--7 is a kind of political unit
--7 has particulars:
- union, sum, join - 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"
--8 is a kind of set
--8 has particulars: direct sum
- union - the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
--9 is a kind of happening, occurrence, natural event
--9 has particulars:
- union - a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
--10 is a kind of device
- union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure - 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"
--11 is a kind of combination, combining, compounding
Antonyms: disunion
--11 has particulars:
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