union

pronunciation

How to pronounce union in British English: UK [ˈjuːniən]word uk audio image

How to pronounce union in American English: US [ˈjuːniən] word us audio image

  • Noun:
    an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
    the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
    the state of being joined or united or linked
    the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
    healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
    a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
    a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
    the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
    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
  • Adjective:
    of trade unions

Word Origin

union
union: [15] Union is one of a range of English words that go back to Latin ūnus ‘one’. This in turn was descended from a prehistoric Indo- European *oinos, which also produced English one. Other members of the family include inch, ounce, unique, unite [15], etc. As for union itself, its immediate ancestor was ūniō, a derivative of ūnus which denoted ‘unity’ or ‘the number one’. The application of the English word to an ‘association of workers’ dates from the early 19th century (a somewhat earlier term was combination).=> inch, one, ounce, unique, unite
union (n.)
early 15c., "action of joining one thing to another," also "agreement, accord," also "state of matrimony," from Anglo-French unioun, Old French union (12c.), from Late Latin unionem (nominative unio) "oneness, unity, a uniting," also in Latin meaning "a single pearl or onion," from unus "one," from PIE *oi-no- "one, unique" (see one). Sense of "action of uniting into one political body" is attested from 1540s. Meaning "group of people or states" is from 1650s. Short for trade union, it is recorded from 1833. U.S. political sense is attested from 1775; used especially during the Civil War, in reference to the remainder of the United States after the Southern secession.

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Example

1. Union protests spread to ohio and indiana .
2. Later , edison became a telegraph operator for western union .
3. The european union has also expressed concern .
4. Who found the word loot a bond of union ?
5. The obama administration tried to win labor 's support for the revised korea pact , and negotiated the deal in consultation with the united auto workers union .

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