unions

Definitions of unions in various dictionaries:

noun - an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

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

noun - the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

noun - the state of being joined or united or linked

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

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

noun - a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

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

noun - the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

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

noun - the act of making or becoming a single unit

noun - a number of persons, parties, or political entities united for a common purpose