union

联合，结合；团结

联盟；联邦

和谐；一致；婚姻

协会；社团

（管子）接头

〈数〉逻辑和；并集

union

联合, 合并, 结合, 联盟, 协会

union

1. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"

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2. 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"

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3. the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"

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4. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"

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

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6. a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"

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7. 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"

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8. the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"

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

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10. 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"

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1. of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"

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