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How to pronounce union in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms conglutination
Type of healing
Type Words
Synonyms federal
Type Words
Synonyms conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union
Type of sexual activity, sex, sex activity, sexual practice
Has types crossbreeding, assortative mating, cross, crossing, disassortative mating, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, inbreeding, interbreeding, service, servicing
Type Words
Synonyms join, sum
Type of set
Has types direct sum


let C be the union of the sets A and B.
Type Words
Synonyms brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union
Type of organisation, organization
Has types craft union, industrial union, industrial workers of the world, iww, i.w.w., vertical union, company union
Derivation unionize


you have to join the union in order to get a job.
Type Words
Synonyms marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock
Type of marital status
Has types common-law marriage, intermarriage, marriage of convenience, misalliance, monandry, monogamousness, monogamy, open marriage, inmarriage, polygamy, exogamy, endogamy, cuckoldom, sigeh, bigamy


God bless this union.
Type Words
Synonyms north
Type Words
Synonyms unification
Type of state
Has types association, syncretism, connectedness, conjunction, conjugation, link, fusion, marriage, colligation, coalition, junction, connection


there is strength in union.
Type Words
Synonyms conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting
Type of combination, combining, compounding
Has types coalescence, concretion, reunion, tribalization, reunification, umbrella, coalescency, tribalisation, conglutination, coalition
Derivation unite


the union of opposing factions.
Type Words
Type of device
Type Words
Type of political entity, political unit
Has types enosis, federation, customs union, confederacy, confederation, league
Type Words


the union movement.
union negotiations.
a union-shop clause in the contract.
Type Words
Type of occurrence, occurrent, happening, natural event
Has types amphimixis, unification, fusion, merger, combining, combine


lightning produced an unusual union of the metals.

Examples of union

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The president of the union representing the workers said he knew of no slowdown.
From the bloomberg.com
Mr. Lawson was active in labor groups since he got his union card as a teenager.
From the sacbee.com
Furloughed union members aren't thrilled that the deal doesn't do more for them.
From the sacbee.com
Gene Upshaw, union president since 1980, becomes the NFLPA's executive director.
From the usatoday.com
It is about union-busting, about eliminating any negotiating in the first place.
From the dailyherald.com
Why don't you guys fight your union bosses instead of complaining to the public?
From the newsday.com
This is like John Hickenlooper taking a job bartending at the AFCSME union hall.
From the denverpost.com
Union keeper Louie Berra saved seven of eight shots he faced to pick up the win.
From the stltoday.com
Spokesmen for the league and union declined to comment if any progress was made.
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More examples
  • An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
  • 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"
  • Of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"
  • Coupling: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
  • The state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"
  • Marriage: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
  • The UNION of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property, UNION or UEPIP, is a European association of practitioners in the field of intellectual property. It was founded in 1961 under the name was "UNION of European Patent Attorneys".
  • The Union automobile was based on Lambert's "horseless carriage" gasoline buggy. It had four wheels instead of his 1891 three wheeled version. The automobile was made by the Union Automobile Company from 1902 through 1905. There were about three hundred Union automobiles made all total. ...
  • Union is an American rock group formed in 1997 featuring lead vocalist and guitarist John Corabi (ex-The Scream and Mu00F6tley Cru00FCe), guitarist Bruce Kulick (ex-Kiss), bassist James Hunting (David Lee Roth and Eddie Money), and drummer Brent Fitz (Slash).