union
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(noun) making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays" |
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Synonyms: unification, uniting |
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Related Words: coalescence, coalescency, combination, combining, compounding, reunification, reunion, umbrella |
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(satellite adjective) being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman" |
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Synonyms: Federal |
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(adjective) of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract" |
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Antonyms: nonunion |
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(noun) a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) |
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Related Words: device |
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(noun) the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals" |
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Related Words: amphimixis, combination, combine, combining, fusion, happening, merger, natural event, occurrence, unification |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: join, sum |
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Related Words: direct sum, set |
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(noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" |
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Synonyms: brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union |
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Related Words: company union, craft union, industrial union, organisation, organization, vertical union |
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(noun) a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union" |
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Related Words: confederacy, confederation, customs union, federation, league, political unit |
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(noun) the United States during the Civil War; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale" |
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Synonyms: North |
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Related Words: America, U.S., U.S.A., US, USA, United States, United States of America |
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(noun) the state of being united; "there is strength in union" |
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Related Words: association, coalition, conjunction, connectedness, connection, fusion, junction, link, marriage, state |
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Antonyms: separation |
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(noun) state of being husband and wife; "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" |
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Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, wedlock |
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Related Words: bigamy, common-law marriage, endogamy, exogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage, marital status, marriage of convenience, misalliance, monandry, monogamousness, monogamy, monogyny, polyandry, polygamy, polygyny |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union |
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Related Words: assortative mating, cross, crossbreeding, crossing, disassortative mating, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, inbreeding, interbreeding, service, servicing, sex, sex activity, sexual activity |
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