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Meaning of union

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  Union
      adj 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 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: {union}, {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}, {union}, {sexual union}]
      4: the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is
         strength in union" [syn: {union}, {unification}] [ant:
         {separation}]
      5: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for
         life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God
         bless this union" [syn: {marriage}, {matrimony}, {union},
         {spousal relationship}, {wedlock}]
      6: healing process involving the growing together of the edges
         of a wound or the growing together of broken bones [syn:
         {union}, {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:
         {union}, {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: 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" [syn: {union}, {unification},
          {uniting}, {conjugation}, {jointure}] [ant: {disunion}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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