· an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"

Synonym(s): labor_union, trade_union, trades_union, brotherhood

Hypernym(s): organization, organisation

· 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"

Synonym(s): Union, North

· 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"

Synonym(s): coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, sexual_union

Hypernym(s): sexual_activity, sexual_practice, sex, sex_activity

· the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"

Synonym(s): unification

Hypernym(s): state

Antonym(s): separation

· the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"

Synonym(s): marriage, matrimony, spousal_relationship, wedlock

Hypernym(s): marital_status

· healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

Synonym(s): conglutination

Hypernym(s): healing

· a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"

Hypernym(s): political_unit, political_entity

· 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"

Synonym(s): sum, join

Hypernym(s): set

· the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"

Hypernym(s): happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural_event

· a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

Hypernym(s): device

· 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"

Synonym(s): unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure

Hypernym(s): combination, combining, compounding

Antonym(s): disunion

· 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"

Synonym(s): Union, Federal

· of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"

Antonym(s): nonunion