An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer:
— You have to join the union in order to get a job.

synonyms: brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union.

Roget 712: party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band.    horde, posse, phalanx; family, clan, etc. 166; team; tong.    council etc. 696.    community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity; confraternity; familistere^†, familistery^†; brotherhood, sisterhood.    knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie, club, casino^†; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall [U.S.].    corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company; copartnership^†, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock company; cahoot, combine [U.S.], trust.    society, association; institute, institution; union; trades union; league, syndicate, alliance, Verein [G.], Bund [G.], Zollverein [G.], combination; Turnverein [G.]; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal, camarilla^†, camorra^†, brigue^†; freemasonry; party spirit etc. (cooperation) 709.    Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar; Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK; Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs &c.. staff; dramatis personae [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 714: concord, accord, harmony, symphony; homologue; agreement etc. 23; sympathy, empathy etc. (love) 897; response; union, unison, unity; bonds of harmony; peace etc. 721; unanimity etc. (assent) 488; league etc. 712; happy family.    rapprochement; reunion; amity etc. (friendship) 888; alliance, entente cordiale [Fr.], good understanding, conciliation, peacemaker; intercessor, mediator.    ... show more

Roget 737a: government, legal authority, soveriegn, sovereign authority; authority etc. 737; master etc. 745; direction etc. 693.    [nations] national government, nation, state, country, nation-state, dominion, republic, empire, union, democratic republic; kingdom, principality.    [subdivisions of nations] state government [Lat.], state; shire [Brit.]; province [Can.]; county [Ire.]; canton [Switz.]; territory [Austral.]; duchy, archduchy, archdukedom^†; woiwodshaft; commonwealth; region etc. 181; property etc. 780.    [smaller subdivisions] county, parish city, domain, tract, arrondissement [Fr.], mofussil^†, commune; wappentake, hundred, riding, lathe, garth^†, soke^†, tithing; ward, precinct, bailiwick.    command, empire, sway, rule; dominion, domination; sovereignty, supremacy, suzerainty; lordship, headship^†; chiefdom^†; seigniory, seigniority^†.    rule, sway, command, control, administer; govern etc. (direct) 693; lead, preside over, reign, possess the throne, be seated on the throne, occupy the throne; sway the scepter, wield the scepter; wear the crown.    state, realm, body politic, posse comitatus [Lat.].    [person in the governing authority] judicature etc. 965; cabinet etc. (council) 696; seat of government, seat of authority; headquarters.    [Acquisition of authority] accession; installation etc. 755; politics etc. 737.1. reign, regime, dynasty; directorship, dictatorship; protectorate, protectorship; caliphate, pashalic^†, electorate; presidency, presidentship^†; administration; proconsul, consulship; prefecture; seneschalship; magistrature^†, magistracy.    monarchy; kinghood^†, kingship; royalty, regality; aristarchy^†, aristocracy; oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy; commonwealth; dominion; heteronomy; republic, republicanism; socialism; collectivism; mob law, mobocracy^†, ochlocracy^†; vox populi, imperium in imperio [Lat.]; bureaucracy; beadledom^†, bumbledom^†; stratocracy; military power, military government, junta; feodality^†, feudal system, feudalism.    thearchy^†, theocracy, dinarchy^†; duarchy^†, triarchy, heterarchy^†; duumvirate; triumvirate; autocracy, autonomy; limited monarchy; constitutional government, constitutional monarchy; home rule; representative government; monocracy^†, pantisocracy^†.    gynarchy^†, gynocracy^†, gynaeocracy^†; petticoat government.    [government functions] legislature, judiciary, administration.    [Government agencies and institutions] office of the president, office of the prime minister, cabinet; senate, house of representatives, parliament; council etc. 696; courts, supreme court; [U.S. national government departments], state, interior, labor, health and human services, defense, education, agriculture, justice, commerce, treasury; Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI; Central Intelligence Agency, CIA; National Institutes of Health, NIH; Postal Service, Post Office; Federal Aviation Administration, FAA.    [national government officials] president, vice president, cabinet member, prime minister, minister; senator, representatative, president pro tem [Lat.], speaker of the house; department head, section head, section chief; federal judge, justice, justice of the supreme court, chief justice; treasurer, secretary of the treasury; director of the FBI.    [state government officials] governor, state cabinet member; state senator, assemblyman, assemblywoman.    ... show more

Roget 178: concurrence, cooperation, coagency^†; union; agreement etc. 23; consilience^†; consent, coincidence etc. (assent) 488; alliance; concert, additivity, synergy etc. 709; partnership etc. 712.    common cause.    ... show more

Roget 23: agreement; accord, accordance; unison, harmony; concord etc. 714; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding.    conformity etc. 82; conformance; uniformity etc. 16; consonance, consentaneousness^†, consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping; congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union.    fitness, aptness etc. adj.; relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey^†; sortance^†; case in point; aptitude, coaptation^†, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation etc. (relation) 9.    adaption^†, adjustment, graduation, accommodation; reconciliation, reconcilement; assimilation.    consent etc. (assent) 488; concurrence etc. 178; cooperation etc. 709.    right man in the right place, very thing; quite the thing, just the thing.    ... show more

Roget 709: cooperation; coadjuvancy^†, coadjutancy^†; coagency^†, coefficiency^†; concert, concurrence, complicity, participation; union etc. 43; additivity, combination etc. 48; collusion.    association, alliance, colleagueship^†, joint stock, copartnership^†; cartel; confederation etc. (party) 712; coalition, fusion; a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together; logrolling, freemasonry.    unanimity etc. (assent) 488; esprit de corps, party spirit; clanship^†, partisanship; concord etc. 714.    synergy, coaction^†.    ... show more

Dutch: beroepsorganisatie, bond, syndicaat, vakbond, vakcentrale, vakfederatie, vakorganisatie, vakverbond, vakvereniging
Polish: związek zawodowy

The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War):
— He has visited every state in the Union.
— Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union.

synonym: North.

The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.

synonyms: conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union.

Dutch: koppeling
Polish: koniugacyjka

The state of being joined or united or linked:
— There is strength in union.

synonym: unification.

Roget 48: combination; mixture etc. 41; junction etc. 43; union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, embodiment, coalescence, crasis^†, fusion, blending, absorption, centralization.    alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertium quid [Lat.]; resultant, impregnation.    ... show more

Dutch: aggregatie, conjunctie, junctie, samenvoeging, vereniging
Polish: unifikacja

The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce):
— God bless this union.

synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock.

Roget 903: marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii [Lat.], nuptial tie.    married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation.    match; betrothment etc. (promise) 768; wedding, nuptials, Hymen, bridal; espousals, spousals; leading to the altar etc. v.; nuptial benediction, epithalamium^†; sealing.    torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen; hymeneal altar; honeymoon.    bridesmaid, bridesman^†, best man; bride, bridegroom.    married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist^†, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate^†; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife.    feme [Fr.], feme coverte [Fr.]; squaw, lady; matron, matronage, matronhood^†; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife.    monogamy, bigamy, digamy^†, deuterogamy^†, trigamy^†, polygamy; mormonism; levirate^†; spiritual wifery^†, spiritual wifeism^†; polyandrism^†; Turk, bluebeard^†.    unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill-assorted marriage; mesalliance; mariage de convenance [Fr.].    marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker; schatchen [G.].    ... show more

Dutch: echt, echtverbintenis, echtvereniging, huwelijk, huwelijksband, matrimonium
Polish: małżeństwo, związek małżeński, węzeł małżeński

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

synonym: conglutination.

Polish: zjednoczenie, przymierze, komunia

A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations.

Dutch: alliantie, bond, bondgenootschap, confederatie, entente, statenbond, unie
Polish: unia

A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets:
— Let C be the union of the sets A and B.

synonyms: join, sum.

The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts.

Dutch: aggregatie, conjunctie, junctie, samenvoeging, vereniging

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:
— The union of opposing factions.

synonyms: conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting.

Dutch: eenwording, unificatie
Polish: jednoczenie, unifikowanie, federowanie, integrowanie

Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War:
— Union soldiers.

synonym: Federal.

Of trade unions.

Polish: związkowy