unions

n an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer n the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War) n the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes n the state of being joined or united or linked n the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) n healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones n a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations n a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets n the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts n a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) n the act of making or becoming a single unit