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

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

union

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

union, conglutination

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

Union, North

n. 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"

union, unification

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

union, sum, join

n. 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"

union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood

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

union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure

n. 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"

Union

n. city in New Jersey

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union

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

Union, Federal

adj. 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"

alliance, coalition, alignment, alinement

n. an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

mix, mixture

n. an event that combines things in a mixture; "a gradual mixture of cultures"

consolidation

n. something that has consolidated into a compact mass; "he dropped the consolidation into the acid bath"

tie

n. equality of score in a contest

alliance, confederation

n. the state of being allied or confederated

membership, rank

n. the body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"

bloc, axis

n. a group of countries in special alliance

order, monastic order

n. a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict"

fraternity, frat

n. a social club for male undergraduates

amalgamation, merger, uniting

n. the combination of two or more commercial companies

confluence, conflux, merging

n. a flowing together

incorporation

n. consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body

Yankee

adj. used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

interruption, break

n. some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity; "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"

separation

n. the state of lacking unity

disunion

n. the termination or destruction of union

nonunion

adj. not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union; "nonunion carpenters"; "a nonunion contractor"

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