Union

(noun.) the act of making or becoming a single unit; 'the union of opposing factions'; 'he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays'.

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

(noun.) the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; 'lightning produced an unusual union of the metals'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; 'you have to join the union in order to get a job'.

(noun.) a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; 'the Soviet Union'.

(noun.) 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'; 'the North's superior resources turned the scale'.

(noun.) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.

(noun.) the state of being joined or united or linked; 'there is strength in union'.

(adj.) being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War; 'Union soldiers'; 'Federal forces'; 'a Federal infantryman' .

(adj.) of trade unions; 'the union movement'; 'union negotiations'; 'a union-shop clause in the contract' .

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• The Bell Company fought alone against the Western Union, and it was a struggle of giants. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It was then a Union victory, in which the Armies of the Tennessee and the Ohio both participated. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It had not got to this height in any part of Scotland before the Union. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• As to America, the advantages of such a union to her are not so apparent. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The union of a number of springs forms a river. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But our troops had to bury the dead, and found that more Confederate than Union soldiers had been killed. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She was free of it all, she could seek a new union elsewhere. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The stock was then selling at about 25, and in the later consolidation with the Western Union went in at about 60; so that the real purchase price was not less than $1,000,000 in cash. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A man leads a dree life who's not i' th' Union. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The office was on the ground floor, and had been a restaurant previous to its occupation by the Western Union Telegraph Company. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The vessels came in, their officers entirely unconscious that they were falling into the hands of the Union forces. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It was a union to distance every wonder of the kind. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• These principles I allow to be neither the infallible nor the sole causes of an union among ideas. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This imperfect companionship, and our masquerade of union, are strangely dear to me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• For unions and trusts, sects, clubs and voluntary associations stand for actual needs. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It steers a course between exploitation by a bureaucracy in the interests of the consumer--the socialist danger--and oppressive monopolies by industrial unions--the syndicalist danger. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Trade unions and women's clubs have joined hands in many an agitation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• You can find Tammany duplicated wherever there is a social group to be governed--in trade unions, in clubs, in boys' gangs, in the Four Hundred, in the Socialist Party. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The need for constant continued care was probably a chief means in transforming temporary cohabitations into permanent unions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Thus the issues in the trade unions may be far more directly important to statecraft than the destiny of the Republican Party. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There are said of have been such unions. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This led me carefully to observe during four years many seedlings, raised from several illegitimate unions. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• This enabled Trade Unions to develop with a large measure of freedom. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In those days of sore oppression th' Unions began; it were a necessity. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Else there would be no meaning in political unions or any other movement that knows what it's about. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• With trimorphic species six unions are legitimate, or fully fertile, and twelve are illegitimate, or more or less infertile. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It has even been suggested in Britain that there should be labour peers, selected from among the leaders of the great industrial trade unions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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