union
IPA: jˈunjʌn
noun
- (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- (countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
- (countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
- (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
- (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- (countable) The act or state of marriage.
- (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
- (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- (countable, now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
- (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
- The 0-10-2 locomotive wheel arrangement.
- The canton of the United States flag: the portion of the flag containing stars on a blue background.
- (US, with determiner, dated, especially 19th century) The United States of America.
- (US, with determiner, historical) Those of the United States that did not secede at the time of the Civil War (of the United States of America).
- (with determiner, historical) The Soviet Union: the proper noun Union is the standard English translation of the proper noun Союз (Sojuz), and all-Union is the standard English translation of всесоюзный (vsesojuznyj).
- Place names:
- A community in Central Elgin, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
- A barangay of Ubay, Bohol, Philippines.
- A village on the south cast of the island of Siargao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A town in Greene County, Alabama.
- A ghost town in Merced County, California.
- A former unincorporated community in Napa County, California.
- A small town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
- A village in McHenry County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Clay Township, Pike County, Indiana.
- A tiny city in Hardin County, Iowa.
- A home rule city in Boone County, Kentucky.
- A town in Knox County, Maine.
- A town in Neshoba County and Newton County, Mississippi.
- A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, Missouri.
- A village in Cass County, Nebraska.
- A village and census-designated place in the town of Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
- A hamlet in Madison County, New York.
- A large town in Broome County, New York.
- A city in Montgomery County and Miami County, Ohio.
- A city in Union County, Oregon.
- A city, the county seat of Union County, South Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Virginia.
- A small town, the county seat of Monroe County, West Virginia.
- A small town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Door County, Wisconsin.
- A town and unincorporated community in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Lima, Grant County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Pierce County, Wisconsin.
- A town and unincorporated community in Rock County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
- A large number of townships in the United States, listed under Union Township.
- A surname.
- (Oxford University, informal) The Oxford Union (a debating society); not to be conflated with Oxford University Student Union (a students' union).
- (chiefly India, with determiner, law) Alternative form of union [(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.]
verb
- (set theory) To combine sets using the union operation.
adjective
- Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
- (India) federal.
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Examples of "union" in Sentences
- In the face of the defiant position of the Anjouanese in favour of the dismemberment of the Union of the Comores, the OAU had no alternative but to authorise a variety of measures that would compel them back into the union.
- The fact is, the compromise alluded to, instead of effecting a union, rendered it impracticable; unless by the term union are to understand the absolute reign of the slaveholding power over the whole country, to the prostration of Northern rights.
- The fact is, the compromise alluded to, instead of effecting a union, rendered it impracticable; unless by the term union we are to understand the absolute reign of the slaveholding power over the whole country, to the prostration of Northern rights.
- The first President Bush used “sound and strong” in 1990, combining Nixon-Carter with Reagan, but the following year departed from tradition to use the word union in a sense that illuminated his “thousand points of light”: “The state of our Union is the union of each of us, one to the other—the sum of our friendships, marriages, families and communities.”
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