Union

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NOUN

an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

the state of being joined or united or linked

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

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

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

the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

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

ADJ

being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

of trade unions

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