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nounhealing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
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adjectivebeing of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
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nounthe act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
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"let C be the union of the sets A and B"nouna set containing all and only the members of two or more given setstype of:
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"you have to join the union in order to get a job"nounan organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
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"God bless this union"nounthe state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
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nounthe United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
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"there is strength in union"nounthe state of being joined or united or linked
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"the union of opposing factions"nounthe act of making or becoming a single unit
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nouna device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)type of:
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"the union movement" "union negotiations" "a union-shop clause in the contract"adjectiveof trade unionsOpposite:
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"lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"nounthe occurrence of a uniting of separate partstype of:
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set sex state happening join marriage service cross north closed connection federal league organization device link organized crossing sum combination northern association umbrella unite healing reunion brotherhood combine organised organisation fusion federation mating coalition merger junction matrimony unification occurrence combining monogamy uniting reunification servicing conjunction wedlock polygamy confederacy confederation coupling pairing inbreeding crossbreeding compounding unionize hybridization bigamy connectedness unionized coalescence conjugation interbreeding concretion conglutination sexual union sexual activity sex activity sexual practice assortative mating disassortative mating hybridisation hybridizing direct sum labor union trade union trades union craft union industrial union industrial workers of the world iww i.w.w. vertical union company union spousal relationship marital status common-law marriage intermarriage marriage of convenience misalliance monandry monogamousness open marriage inmarriage exogamy endogamy cuckoldom sigeh syncretism colligation jointure tribalization coalescency tribalisation political entity political unit enosis customs union unionised occurrent natural event amphimixis