UNION

An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

Example: "You have to join the union in order to get a job"

The united states (especially the northern states during the american civil war)

Example: "He has visited every state in the union"

The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

Example: "The casual couplings of adolescents"

The state of being joined or united or linked

Example: "There is strength in union"

The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

Example: "A long and happy marriage"

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

A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

Example: "The soviet union"

A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

Example: "Let c be the union of the sets a and b"

The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

Example: "Lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"

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

The act of making or becoming a single unit

Example: "The union of opposing factions"