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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
union
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a union/business leader
▪ Business leaders welcomed a cut in the interest rate.
African Union, the
European Union
gym/union/party etc membership (=membership of a particular group)
▪ How much do you pay for your gym membership?
labor union
Rugby Union
staff/union/company etc rep
▪ You need to speak to the students’ rep.
student union
trade union
Union Jack
union suit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ As a result, they are determined to build on that interdependence by moving towards economic and monetary union.
▪ It came at a moment when skepticism over the pace toward full economic union and the single currency has been mounting.
▪ Provisions concerning economic union Article 11.
▪ At Maastricht next month, political, economic and monetary union will take pride of place.
▪ My right hon. Friend the Chancellor and his counterparts ably negotiated amendments in the documents on economic and monetary union.
▪ Already, there are plans for another intergovernmental conference in 1996 and they already have a timetable for economic and monetary union.
▪ The treaty covers economic and monetary union and political union.
▪ In his speech, the Prime Minister set out the weak position from which he negotiates on economic and monetary union.
local
▪ It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions.
▪ It was one of five local unions in the Northwest Indiana District Council.
▪ During the case studies a large number of interviews with local credit union members will be carried out.
▪ To me, there is nothing harder than to run a local union.
▪ In any industrial plant, there is a local union headed by a general delegate.
▪ The local flight attendant union, I told her.
▪ Gavin, since been dismissed by local government union Nalgo, was a full-time union official representing thousands of council employees.
▪ Active steps were also taken to strengthen links with local trade unions.
monetary
▪ The reason is that the treaty sets criteria to measure whether a country is ready for economic and monetary union.
▪ The upper limit for prospective members of the future monetary union is 3 percent.
▪ He provides the intellectual thrust and gravitas of the arguments of those who oppose monetary and political union.
▪ First, a definition of monetary union will be presented.
▪ These problems would intensify following the introduction of a core monetary union.
▪ Maastricht makes exchange-rate stability a precondition for participating in monetary union.
▪ I believe that monetary union is political union, and that the creation of a single currency is federalism.
political
▪ Of course, as the Oxford philosophers always say, it all depends upon what we mean by political union.
▪ It is simply a free trade area with not even vague plans for eventual political union.
▪ De Gaulle had already had arguments with the other five over his 1961 blueprint for political union.
▪ He provides the intellectual thrust and gravitas of the arguments of those who oppose monetary and political union.
▪ Doesn't monetary union inevitably lead to political union?
▪ More recently there has been a steep decline in the support for political union.
▪ That is true on economic and monetary union and on political union.
▪ The first clash came over de Gaulle's ideas on political union.
■ NOUN
credit
▪ Underneath them stand thousands of weaker regional banks, mutual banks and credit unions, as well as non-bank banks such as leasing firms.
▪ Traditionally, credit unions have drawn their members from a single employer or community.
▪ The Credit Unions Act 1979 has eased the growth of the credit union movement.
▪ The credit unions are backing a House bill co-sponsored by Rep.
▪ In essence, then, credit unions are owned and controlled by their members through elected officials.
▪ That allows some credit unions to offer interest rates at least 2 percent lower on loans than commercial banks.
▪ Credit talk: Fancy setting up a credit union or finding out a bit more about how one works?
▪ Of course, most credit unions have small memberships and assets of only a few million dollars.
currency
▪ The creation of a currency union removes this disadvantage.
▪ In a parallel currency union, a member country's currency competes with the parallel currency.
▪ Similarly, a parallel currency union shares certain features with a currency union.
▪ In a currency union these transactions costs are eliminated.
▪ His economics minister is talking of currency union between the two Germanies by July.
▪ Further, in a currency union no government of a member country can manipulate the money supply growth rate for electoral purposes.
▪ Its central provision was the currency union of I July 1990, but it contained a number of other important provisions.
labor
▪ Economic prosperity allowed government to maintain peace with the labor unions by allowing high wage settlements.
▪ Add to this the fact that in every developed country today, the strongest labor unions are government employees.
▪ Some groups, such as the farmers and the labor unions, now gained a greater share in power and its benefits.
▪ One clear beneficiary is labor unions, which tend to represent high-wage workers.
▪ To win her support, the ports would have to open discussions with labor unions that oppose the bill.
▪ No one would trust a documentary series about labor unions paid for entirely by union funds.
▪ The flight attendants meeting in Sydney this morning have authorized their labor union to take further action.
leader
▪ This optimism, however, is not shared by many politicians and trade union leaders.
▪ There are trade union leaders who see nothing wrong in this situation.
▪ It earned an angry response from a teachers' union leader, Nigel de Gruchy.
▪ But health union leaders remain sceptical, and fear services could be hit if the mall fails to take off.
▪ Granada managers held talks with union leaders about the job losses in London yesterday.
▪ And where once union leaders talked of struggle and solidarity, now they speak of profitability and competitiveness.
▪ Could the government ban union membership amongst civil servants working at its intelligence headquarters without consulting union leaders?
▪ And it provoked a furious backlash from Labour and union leaders.
member
▪ They made an inventory of the industries in the zone and then made contact with union members in them.
▪ Among trade union members 70 percent were in favour, while 75 percent of Green Party members opposed abolition.
▪ We have also legislated five times to transform industrial relations, returning power from militants to ordinary union members.
▪ Her role is simply to assist union members in taking certain specified types of legal action against their trade union.
▪ In 1955 R left the union after a disagreement with union members.
▪ Which trade union members should engage in such wider learning?
▪ In Britain, closed shop arrangements currently extend to just 20% of all employees, under half of all union members.
▪ But he's not allowed into the Labour Party because he's not a union member.
membership
▪ He went on to say he would introduce a scheme for voluntary union membership as soon as possible.
▪ He explained that union membership was an outdated rule.
▪ In contrast, decentralised bargaining systems have a restricting influence upon the degree of union membership attained.
▪ The victimization which occurred, the loss of trade union membership, and the wage reductions all seemed to confirm this impression.
▪ By 1920, trade union membership reached its inter-war peak of about 8 million.
▪ The rights of union membership would also be guaranteed.
▪ We are therefore concerned with the impact which trade unions and trade union membership has upon the productivity of the workforce.
movement
▪ Would a renewed Labour Party imply a revived trade union movement?
▪ Right now the trade union movement in Britain is functioning as a white man's union and this must be challenged.
▪ It is the main task of the trade union movement to create this unity.
▪ The call followed growing public unrest with several confrontations between the trade union movement and the government.
▪ By the late 1930s the trade union movement was, in fact, recapturing its lost membership.
▪ It was becoming an alliance of the trade union movement with a unitary political party.
▪ The trade union movement as a whole would, in the future, face similar challenges to its powers in other industries.
official
▪ Oleg Stolypin, a state lawyer Karim Ishkent, a trade union official.
▪ Labor and trade union officials were arrested by the score.
▪ But the ban has upset some workers, and union officials say it's unnecessary.
▪ According to Les Echos, union officials said that Pache would give no indication of the size or timing of staff losses.
▪ The Left became increasingly middle-class and this reinforced the already strong opposition to it among trade union officials.
▪ Teachers' union officials admit that many teachers earn more from private tutoring than from their official jobs.
▪ However, these are often frustrated at branch level or by union officials in individual firms.
▪ Workers were given the grim news by union officials at a mass meeting.
representative
▪ Trade union representatives meet with management regularly at national and regional level at meetings known as Whitley Councils.
▪ Under the initiative, labor unions representatives would face city management in meetings open to the public.
▪ Next week union representatives and shop-floor workers will travel to London to lobby Parliament.
▪ The research also examines the perception and evaluation of health and safety problems and goals by trade union representatives.
▪ Guidelines have been agreed by management and union representatives and have been put to federal ministers.
▪ It is therefore necessary to include the personnel manager and a trade union representative in the systems planning team.
▪ The employers' offensive worsened job conditions and hamstrung plant-level union representatives.
▪ Mr Clifton paid particular tribute to the work of the trades union representatives on the advisory committee.
rugby
▪ Is there not one prominent rugby union footballer or journalist who is compelled to criticize this scandalous and absurd state of affairs?
▪ Nigel Henderson is a consultant who's involved in the management of rugby union and deals with worst of these cases.
▪ The Green Lane site is also home to Middlesbrough's cricket and rugby union clubs.
▪ Yet the events at Murrayfield illustrated just what a complex sport rugby union actually is.
▪ Davies speaks volumes Robert Armstrong on the biography destined to be a rugby union classic.
▪ The 1991 World Cup generated unprecedented interest in rugby union and planted the sport firmly in the top league of spectator sports.
▪ Categories will include golf, tennis, rugby union, football, horseracing, cricket, Formula 1 and rugby league.
student
▪ A student union called for a one-day strike at local colleges.
▪ One stands proudly in the main lobby of the student union at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
▪ The annual fee includes the subscription for student unions, athletic clubs, and other facilities.
▪ Finally, it's worth noting that most colleges have an extensive range of services offered by the college or student union.
▪ Outside London, you can find yourself performing in student unions, arts centres, pubs, theatre foyers or art galleries.
▪ Teviot Row House is the oldest purpose-built student union in Britain, dating back to 1889.
▪ Detectives said the crime was pre-meditated. p-t-c Reaction to the sentence from the student union was mixed.
▪ The student union are taking legal advice about whether they can take any further action to recover the missing money.
trade
▪ On Jan. 14 Olszewski had agreed to look into budget proposals from the Solidarity trade union which would cause less hardship.
▪ By 1920, trade union membership reached its inter-war peak of about 8 million.
▪ Unemployment, therefore, exerted a powerful, but short-lived, impact upon trade unions and the pattern of industrial relations.
▪ A number of new trade unions were formed in the latter part of 1989 to represent a wide range of workers.
▪ Others felt that the trade unions can do very little and that people don't look to them.
▪ The electoral college elects B, mainly through trade union and constituency votes.
▪ Elsewhere, the trade unions appear to have been weakly organised in the District.
▪ The vendor will be required to warrant that no trade unions have been recognised and that there are no collective agreements.
■ VERB
form
▪ The right to form trade unions and professional bodies, and the right to strike were established.
▪ I doubt today if any group of workers can form a union if their employer is truly determined to resist.
▪ Among the most controversial options being considered is whether to form a union with the Roman Catholic Church.
▪ We tried to form a union.
▪ They also demanded the right to form a union and insisted on the reinstatement of policemen sacked earlier for indiscipline.
▪ And women in many developed countries are tending increasingly to adjust by forming non-legal unions that often produce offspring.
▪ Several members of the prison staff said they expected to be victimised for helping to form the union.
▪ They had agreed that it would be unrealistic to attempt to form a union of the two republics.
join
▪ The idea was to encourage people to join a union - not ban them if they couldn't.
▪ In a historic shift, many are even joining unions.
▪ The first concerns an employee's freedom to join the union of his choice.
▪ Can a teacher be forced to join a union?
▪ They must join the existing unions and fight through them.
▪ I went down to the union and they told me I got to be working before I could join the union.
▪ Were they allowed to join a union?
▪ Do all teachers have a right to join a union and engage in collective bargaining?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crime-busting/union-busting/budget-busting etc
the European Union
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ union members
▪ Alaska and Hawaii both joined the union in 1959.
▪ Some workers refused to join the union.
▪ The largest teachers' union supports the education reforms.
▪ the National Union of Mineworkers.
▪ the National Farmers' Union
▪ The President could not rely on the support of the labor unions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among the most controversial options being considered is whether to form a union with the Roman Catholic Church.
▪ She tried to get into the matter of trade unions.
▪ Strategically, it was a victory for the union forces of the North.
▪ The Labour party and trade unions say farmworkers need to be protected and need to be treated as a special case.
▪ They certainly lose a degree of security, and for that reason their unions often oppose any threat to their monopoly status.
▪ Yucatan, although not completely pacified, had been reincorporated into the federal union in July.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Union

Union \Un"ion\ (?; 277), n. [F., from L. unio oneness, union, a single large pearl, a kind of onion, fr. unus one. See One, and cf. Onion, Unit.]

  1. The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

    Note: Union differs from connection, as it implies that the bodies are in contact, without an inter?ening body; whereas things may be connected by the in???vention of a third body, as by a cord or chain.

  2. Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.

  3. That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union.
    --A. Hamilton.

  4. A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.

  5. A large, fine pearl. [Obs.]

    If they [pearls] be white, great, round, smooth, and weighty . . . our dainties and delicates here at Rome . . . call them unions, as a man would say ``singular,'' and by themselves alone.
    --Holland.

    In the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn.
    --Shak.

  6. A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.

    Note: The union of the United States ensign is a cluster of white stars, denoting the union of the States, and, properly, equal in number to that of the States, displayed on a blue field; the fly being composed of alternate stripes of red and white. The union of the British ensign is the three crosses of St. George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick in combination, denoting the union of England, Scotland and Ireland, displayed on a blue field in the national banner used on shore, on a red, white, or blue field in naval ensigns, and with a white border or fly in the merchant service.

  7. (Mach.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.

  8. (Brewing) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on. Hypostatic union (Theol.) See under Hypostatic. Latin union. See under Latin. Legislative Union (Eng. Hist.), the union of Great Britain and Ireland, which took place Jan. 1, 1801. Union, or Act of Union (Eng. Hist.), the act by which Scotland was united to England, or by which the two kingdoms were incorporated into one, in 1707. Union by the first intention, or Union by the second intention. (Surg.) See To heal by the first intention, or To heal by the second intention, under Intention. Union down (Naut.), a signal of distress at sea made by reversing the flag, or turning its union downward. Union jack. (Naut.) See Jack, n., 10. Union joint. (Mech.)

    1. A joint formed by means of a union.

    2. A piece of pipe made in the form of the letter T.

      Syn: Unity; junction; connection; concord; alliance; coalition; combination; confederacy.

      Usage: Union, Unity. Union is the act of bringing two or more things together so as to make but one, or the state of being united into one. Unity is a state of simple oneness, either of essence, as the unity of God, or of action, feeling, etc., as unity of design, of affection, etc. Thus, we may speak of effecting a union of interests which shall result in a unity of labor and interest in securing a given object.

      One kingdom, joy, and union without end.
      --Milton.

      [Man] is to . . . beget Like of his like, his image multiplied. In unity defective; which requires Collateral love, and dearest amity.
      --Milton.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
union

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).\n

\nSense 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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Wiktionary
union

n. 1 (context countable English) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one. 2 (context uncountable English) The state of being united or joined. 3 (context countable English) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league. 4 (context countable English) A trade union; a workers' union.

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WordNet
union

  1. n. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" [syn: labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood]

  2. 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" [syn: North]

  3. 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" [syn: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, sexual union]

  4. the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union" [syn: unification] [ant: separation]

  5. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock]

  6. healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones [syn: conglutination]

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

  8. 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" [syn: sum, join]

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

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

  11. 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" [syn: unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure] [ant: disunion]

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Gazetteer
Union, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 227
Housing Units (2000): 103
Land area (2000): 0.820095 sq. miles (2.124036 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.820095 sq. miles (2.124036 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77616
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 32.994164 N, 87.905313 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Union, AL
Union
Union, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 7757
Housing Units (2000): 3133
Land area (2000): 8.080852 sq. miles (20.929310 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.080852 sq. miles (20.929310 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74626
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.446684 N, 91.006070 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63084
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Headwords:
Union, MO
Union
Union, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 260
Housing Units (2000): 112
Land area (2000): 0.207538 sq. miles (0.537522 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.207538 sq. miles (0.537522 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49635
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.813763 N, 95.922336 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68455
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Headwords:
Union, NE
Union
Union, NJ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Jersey
Population (2000): 54405
Housing Units (2000): 20001
Land area (2000): 9.115933 sq. miles (23.610157 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000996 sq. miles (0.002579 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.116929 sq. miles (23.612736 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74510
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.696951 N, 74.270439 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 07083
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Union, NJ
Union
Union, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 5574
Housing Units (2000): 2167
Land area (2000): 4.281239 sq. miles (11.088358 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.001131 sq. miles (0.002929 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.282370 sq. miles (11.091287 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78470
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.900154 N, 84.313494 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45322
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Union, OH
Union
Union, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 1926
Housing Units (2000): 821
Land area (2000): 2.491656 sq. miles (6.453358 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.491656 sq. miles (6.453358 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75850
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.210034 N, 117.864818 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97883
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Union, OR
Union
Union, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 576
Housing Units (2000): 208
Land area (2000): 0.606080 sq. miles (1.569740 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.606080 sq. miles (1.569740 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76706
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 42.235237 N, 88.542379 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60180
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Union, IL
Union
Union, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 427
Housing Units (2000): 209
Land area (2000): 0.552503 sq. miles (1.430975 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.552503 sq. miles (1.430975 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79545
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.244715 N, 93.064240 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50258
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Union, IA
Union
Union, SC -- U.S. city in South Carolina
Population (2000): 8793
Housing Units (2000): 4240
Land area (2000): 7.957192 sq. miles (20.609032 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.957192 sq. miles (20.609032 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73105
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.717308 N, 81.624924 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29379
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Union, SC
Union
Union, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 2893
Housing Units (2000): 879
Land area (2000): 3.234704 sq. miles (8.377845 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.234704 sq. miles (8.377845 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78384
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.945185 N, 84.671866 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 41091
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Union, KY
Union
Union, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 2021
Housing Units (2000): 884
Land area (2000): 3.431298 sq. miles (8.887020 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.431298 sq. miles (8.887020 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75360
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 32.571320 N, 89.118118 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39365
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Headwords:
Union, MS
Union
Union, WV -- U.S. town in West Virginia
Population (2000): 548
Housing Units (2000): 309
Land area (2000): 0.450446 sq. miles (1.166649 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.450446 sq. miles (1.166649 sq. km)
FIPS code: 81940
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 37.591211 N, 80.543022 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 24983
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Union, WV
Union
Union -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 17289
Housing Units (2000): 10001
Land area (2000): 322.548837 sq. miles (835.397617 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.474381 sq. miles (16.768568 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 329.023218 sq. miles (852.166185 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 34.856402 N, 84.009393 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, GA
Union County
Union County, GA
Union -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000): 15637
Housing Units (2000): 6234
Land area (2000): 345.097663 sq. miles (893.798807 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 18.330144 sq. miles (47.474852 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 363.427807 sq. miles (941.273659 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.645700 N, 87.931029 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, KY
Union County
Union County, KY
Union -- U.S. County in Indiana
Population (2000): 7349
Housing Units (2000): 3077
Land area (2000): 161.548228 sq. miles (418.407973 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.700226 sq. miles (9.583542 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 165.248454 sq. miles (427.991515 sq. km)
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.607816 N, 84.917283 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, IN
Union County
Union County, IN
Union -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 12309
Housing Units (2000): 5657
Land area (2000): 424.386689 sq. miles (1099.156431 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.566735 sq. miles (4.057826 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 425.953424 sq. miles (1103.214257 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.033565 N, 94.274698 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, IA
Union County
Union County, IA
Union -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 18293
Housing Units (2000): 7894
Land area (2000): 416.160883 sq. miles (1077.851694 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.966986 sq. miles (15.454421 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 422.127869 sq. miles (1093.306115 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.461737 N, 89.248116 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, IL
Union County
Union County, IL
Union -- U.S. Parish in Louisiana
Population (2000): 22803
Housing Units (2000): 10873
Land area (2000): 877.601746 sq. miles (2272.977992 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 27.676690 sq. miles (71.682295 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 905.278436 sq. miles (2344.660287 sq. km)
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 32.807443 N, 92.387227 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, LA
Union Parish
Union Parish, LA
Union -- U.S. County in Mississippi
Population (2000): 25362
Housing Units (2000): 10693
Land area (2000): 415.430555 sq. miles (1075.960153 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.442909 sq. miles (3.737118 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 416.873464 sq. miles (1079.697271 sq. km)
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 34.489085 N, 88.999738 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, MS
Union County
Union County, MS
Union -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 40909
Housing Units (2000): 15217
Land area (2000): 436.651495 sq. miles (1130.922131 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.325673 sq. miles (0.843490 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 436.977168 sq. miles (1131.765621 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.271860 N, 83.366607 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, OH
Union County
Union County, OH
Union -- U.S. County in North Carolina
Population (2000): 123677
Housing Units (2000): 45695
Land area (2000): 637.366684 sq. miles (1650.772063 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.221722 sq. miles (5.754233 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 639.588406 sq. miles (1656.526296 sq. km)
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.000284 N, 80.570296 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, NC
Union County
Union County, NC
Union -- U.S. County in New Jersey
Population (2000): 522541
Housing Units (2000): 192945
Land area (2000): 103.289164 sq. miles (267.517696 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.171768 sq. miles (5.624852 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 105.460932 sq. miles (273.142548 sq. km)
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.657752 N, 74.301654 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, NJ
Union County
Union County, NJ
Union -- U.S. County in New Mexico
Population (2000): 4174
Housing Units (2000): 2225
Land area (2000): 3830.004212 sq. miles (9919.664950 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.787354 sq. miles (2.039238 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3830.791566 sq. miles (9921.704188 sq. km)
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 36.492607 N, 103.417893 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, NM
Union County
Union County, NM
Union -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000): 12584
Housing Units (2000): 5345
Land area (2000): 460.375710 sq. miles (1192.367564 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.704302 sq. miles (17.364062 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 467.080012 sq. miles (1209.731626 sq. km)
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 42.824582 N, 96.657572 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, SD
Union County
Union County, SD
Union -- U.S. County in Oregon
Population (2000): 24530
Housing Units (2000): 10603
Land area (2000): 2036.554493 sq. miles (5274.651697 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.997315 sq. miles (5.173023 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2038.551808 sq. miles (5279.824720 sq. km)
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.325011 N, 118.031311 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, OR
Union County
Union County, OR
Union -- U.S. County in Tennessee
Population (2000): 17808
Housing Units (2000): 7916
Land area (2000): 223.563421 sq. miles (579.026577 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 23.566680 sq. miles (61.037419 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 247.130101 sq. miles (640.063996 sq. km)
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 36.265117 N, 83.814380 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, TN
Union County
Union County, TN
Union -- U.S. County in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 41624
Housing Units (2000): 14684
Land area (2000): 316.726156 sq. miles (820.316944 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.389813 sq. miles (1.009610 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 317.115969 sq. miles (821.326554 sq. km)
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.952523 N, 77.005608 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, PA
Union County
Union County, PA
Union -- U.S. County in South Carolina
Population (2000): 29881
Housing Units (2000): 13351
Land area (2000): 514.117730 sq. miles (1331.558751 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.798634 sq. miles (4.658441 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 515.916364 sq. miles (1336.217192 sq. km)
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.719470 N, 81.610324 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, SC
Union County
Union County, SC
Union -- U.S. County in Florida
Population (2000): 13442
Housing Units (2000): 3736
Land area (2000): 240.285431 sq. miles (622.336384 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 9.423457 sq. miles (24.406640 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 249.708888 sq. miles (646.743024 sq. km)
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 30.028050 N, 82.367222 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, FL
Union County
Union County, FL
Union -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 45629
Housing Units (2000): 20676
Land area (2000): 1038.902505 sq. miles (2690.745020 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 16.367899 sq. miles (42.392663 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1055.270404 sq. miles (2733.137683 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 33.207179 N, 92.612793 W
Headwords:
Union
Union, AR
Union County
Union County, AR
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Wikipedia
Union (set theory)

In set theory, the union (denoted by ∪) of a collection of sets is the set of all distinct elements in the collection. It is one of the fundamental operations through which sets can be combined and related to each other.

For explanation of the symbols used in this article, refer to the table of mathematical symbols.

Unión

Unión may refer to:

  • Unión, Paraguay
  • Unión Municipality, Falcón, Venezuela
  • Unión, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Unión Cantinil, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
  • Unión Department, Córdoba Province, Argentina
  • Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Unión Panamericana, Chocó, Colombia
Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War, the Union referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government and the 23 free states and 5 border states that supported it. The Union was opposed by 11 southern slave states that formed the Confederate States, or "the Confederacy."

All of the Union's states provided soldiers for the U.S. Army; the border areas also sent large numbers of soldiers to the Confederacy. The Border states played a major role as a supply base for the Union invasion of the Confederacy. The Northeast provided the industrial resources for a mechanized war producing large quantities of munitions and supplies, as well as financing for the war. The Midwest provided soldiers, food, horses, financial support, and training camps. Army hospitals were set up across the Union. Most states had Republican governors who energetically supported the war effort and suppressed anti-war subversion in 1863–64. The Democratic Party strongly supported the war in 1861 but in 1862 was split between the War Democrats and the anti-war element led by the "Copperheads." The Democrats made major electoral gains in 1862 in state elections, most notably in New York. They lost ground in 1863, especially in Ohio. In 1864 the Republicans campaigned under the National Union Party banner, which attracted many War Democrats and soldiers and scored a landslide victory for Lincoln and his entire ticket.

The war years were quite prosperous except where serious fighting and guerrilla warfare took place along the southern border. Prosperity was stimulated by heavy government spending and the creation of an entirely new national banking system. The Union states invested a great deal of money and effort in organizing psychological and social support for soldiers' wives, widows, orphans, and for the soldiers themselves. Most soldiers were volunteers, although after 1862 many volunteered to escape the draft and to take advantage of generous cash bounties on offer from states and localities. Draft resistance was notable in some larger cities, especially New York City with its massive anti-draft riots of 1863 and in some remote districts such as the coal mining areas of Pennsylvania.

Union (band)

Union is an American rock group formed in 1997 featuring lead vocalist and guitarist John Corabi (ex- The Scream and Mötley Crüe), guitarist Bruce Kulick (ex- Kiss), bassist James Hunting (David Lee Roth and Eddie Money), and drummer Brent Fitz ( Slash).

Union (comics)

Union is a fictional character in the Wildstorm universe.

Union (automobile)

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 (Yes album)

Union is the thirteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released on 30 April 1991 by Arista Records. Production began in 1990 following the amalgamation of two bands featuring current and previous members of Yes at the time—Yes, formed of Chris Squire, Trevor Rabin, Tony Kaye, and Alan White; and Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (ABWH), formed of Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, and Bill Bruford. The album is a collection of tracks written by each group separately; the eight members do not all play together.

Union was released to a mixed reception. Most of the band have openly stated their dislike for the album, its production, and the difficulties faced with making it. The album reached number 7 in the UK and number 15 in the US. Three singles were released from the album—" Lift Me Up", " Saving My Heart", and "I Would Have Waited Forever". "Lift Me Up" topped the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for six weeks. Howe's guitar solo, "Masquerade", received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Yes supported Union with a 1991–92 world tour that featured all eight members playing on stage. Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe left the band at its conclusion.

Union (TTC)

Union is a rapid transit station on Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway and RT in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1954 as one of twelve original stations on the city's first section of subway. The station is also terminus of the 509 Harbourfront and 510 Spadina streetcar routes.

Union Station is located on Front Street between the Yonge Street and University Avenue sections of the line. It directly connected to the railway station and regional bus terminal of the same name. Based on Toronto's street grid, Union is the southernmost subway station; however, using standard compass directions, Kipling and Islington Stations are further south.

Union connects the subway with GO Transit, Via Rail, Union Pearson Express trains, and GO Transit buses. It serves approximately 100,000 people a day, ranking it as the fourth-busiest station in the system, after Bloor-Yonge, St. George & Sheppard–Yonge and the system's busiest station served by only one line. Wi-fi service is available at this station.

Union (NJT station)

Union is a New Jersey Transit railroad station in Union County, New Jersey. Located on the Conrail Lehigh Line, Union is served by Raritan Valley Line trains direct to New York Penn Station, Newark Penn Station, Raritan, and High Bridge. The physical structures of the station are owned by New Jersey Transit, however the land remains property of Norfolk Southern Railway, in accordance with the 1999 buyout of Consolidated Rail Corporation by Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Corporation.

Union (Star Wars)

Union is a four-issue Star Wars comic miniseries written by Michael A. Stackpole. It takes place about 20 years after the events of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and chronicles the dangers and trials leading up to Luke Skywalker's wedding to Mara Jade.

Union (Puya album)

Union is the third studio album by Puerto Rican progressive metal band Puya, released by MCA, in 2001.

Union (Madagascar)

Union (Tambatra) is a political party in Madagascar. The party's candidate Pety Rakotoniaina won 1.68% in the December 2006 presidential election. Since the 23 September 2007 National Assembly elections it is no longer represented ij parliament

Union (The Boxer Rebellion album)

Union is the second album by The Boxer Rebellion, released worldwide on January 11, 2009, only through iTunes.

The track "Silent Movie" stops at around 4:30 leaving 39 seconds of silence at the end of the track.

The track "Semi-Automatic" featured on a Waterloo episode in 2009.

A physical release has been available since September 14 (UK) and September 11 (ROI). It is available in physical format, exclusively at HMV stores in Canada and has been so since 7 July 2009.

Union (Toni Childs album)

Union is the debut album of the American singer/songwriter Toni Childs. Released in 1988, the album peaked at #63 in the US (where it has since been certified Gold for sales of over 500,000 copies). It also peaked at #1 in New Zealand where it was certified 5x Platinum (75,000 copies sold).

The album was recorded in London, Paris, and Swaziland. Following its release, Childs was nominated for two Grammy Awards (for 'Best New Artist' and for 'Best Rock Vocal Performance (Female)' for the single "Don't Walk Away").

Union (Union album)

Union is the debut album of the rock band Union.

Union (Cuff the Duke album)

Union is the sixth studio album by Canadian country rock band Cuff the Duke, released October 2, 2012 on Paper Bag Records.

The band considers the album to be the second part of a two-part album, paired with its 2011 album Morning Comes. The tracks "Side by Side" and "Stay" also feature guest vocals by Basia Bulat.

Union (Chara album)

is the 11th studio album by Chara, which was released on February 28, 2007. It debuted at #4 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted in the top 300 for 8 weeks.

Union was her first album with Universal Music, after releasing music with Sony since 1991. It was released in two versions: a limited edition CD+DVD version, as well as a regular CD Only version. The DVD featured the music videos for the three singles, "Sekai", Crazy for You and Fantasy.

Sekai, released five and 1/2 months before the album, was Chara's first release under Universal. It was used in commercials for the NTT docomo service "NEC N702is" cellphone. The second single, Crazy for You, was created in collaboration with Shibuya-kei DJ Tomoyuki Tanaka (i.e. Fantastic Plastic Machine) and The Brilliant Green guitarist Ryo Matsui. Tanaka produced the song, while Matsui wrote the music.

Fantasy, the third single preceding the album's release by a month, was a minor hit for Chara. It was used in Kanebo cosmetics commercials for their T'estimo eye-makeup range, featuring Chara as a spokesperson in the commercials. It was a collaboration between Chara and music producer Seiji Kameda, bassist for the band Tokyo Jihen. It managed to reach #13 on Oricon's single charts.

The final track of the album, , was used as the theme song for the Japanese film .

Union (Hungarian-German trade union council)

Union was a central trade union organization of Hungarian and German workers in Slovakia. As of early 1920 Union claimed a membership of around 40,000 workers in southwestern Slovakia. Gyula Nagy, an important figure in the leftwing in Slovakia at the time, was the secretary of Union (as well as the Agricultural Labourers Union of Southwestern Slovakia and a parliamentarian of the Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party). Union had a strong presence amongst agricultural labourers. The organization was linked to the Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party.

The organization emerged after the end of the First World War as a continuation of the German-Hungarian Gewerkschaftskartell ('Trade Union Council'). A congress of Hungarian and German trade unions of the Bratislava region was held September 28–30, 1919. The foundation had initially been planned for March 21, 1919, but had been postponed with the intention to await the emergence of a better environment for cooperation with the Slovak trade unions. Ahead of the September 1919 congress, however, the Slovak Executive Committee of the Czechoslovak Trade Union Association had initially called upon its affiliates not to attend. The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association unions had been invited to the congress in order to discuss the possibilities for joint action. In the end the leadership of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Labour Party intervened, and the Slovak Executive Committee of the Czechoslovak Trade Union Association withdrew its previous decision. Both the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Labour Party and the Czechoslovak Trade Union Association had representatives attending the founding congress of Union. The congress resolved that the goal of the organization would be to seek unity of the trade union movement in Slovakia on territorial basis within the Czechoslovak Trade Union Association. A special commission to examine the possibilities of a merger between Union and the Czechoslovak Trade Union Association was formed at the congress, with participants from both organizations. Union did however remain opposed to immediate unification with the Slovak trade unions, seeking a large degree of autonomy in the short term. Union applied for registration on October 25, 1919.

Union sent representatives to the Slovak congress of the Czechoslovak Trade Union Association held in Piešťany January 6–8, 1920. At the congress the Union representatives retained that they considered unification 'premature'.

On March 14, 1920, an extraordinary congress of Union was held in Žilina. The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association, the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Labour Party and the Bohemian German Gewerkschaftsbund sent representatives to the congress. At the Žilina congress, the leftist tendency had a strong presence. The congress was held with the intention of prevention factional conflicts between the communist and moderate wings of the movement.

Union held a congress on September 5, 1920, in Bratislava which called for unification with the Czechoslovak Trade Union Association 'on the platform of the Third International'. This move was rejected by the social democratic leaders of the Hungarian-German labour movement, though. Implementation was unrealistic anyway, as the communists remained a minority within the Czechoslovak Trade Union Association. Nevertheless, discussions on unification followed and by the end of September 1920 Union decided to merge into the Czechoslovak organization. The merger was effective in early 1921. Around 30,000 Hungarian and German workers joined the Slovak branch of the Czechoslovak Trade Union Association. However, many of them soon left as the communists formed a trade union centre of their own.

Union (Dubai Metro)

Union (Arabic: , Al-Ittihad, ) is a rapid transit station on the Green and Red Lines of the Dubai Metro in Dubai. It is one of two transfer stations between lines, the other being BurJuman. Since it began service, over 16.224 million passengers have used Union station, making it the busiest station on the network.

Union (Paradoxical Frog album)

Union is the second album by Paradoxical Frog, a collective trio consisting of pianist Kris Davis, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. It was recorded in 2011 and released on the Portuguese Clean Feed label.

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Usage examples of "union".

Hence, on account of the union of charity, what is vouchsafed to all ought to be accounted his own by each one.

On December 13, 1919, the presidents and secretaries of the 113 national and international unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor met at Washington, D.

On November 9th delegates of eight independent unions in different industries, representing something like 250,000 workers, met in New York City and took the first steps for an affiliation with the I.

If I had elsewhere witnessed the painful contrast between affluence and want, here I had found the true union of riches and poverty.

Tomorrow evening, at eighteen hundred hours, Corry--or Karen, or whatever her name is--she and I will link up with Aley in Union Station.

The other day Judge Wead alluded to the strike of the contending interest and even a dissolution of the Union.

Rigorous analytic methods were developed, focused in particular on the Soviet Union, and several leading practitioners within the intelligence community discussed them with us.

He declared that he would smite with anathema anyone so rash as to mention consanguinity as an obstacle to their union.

Remember, in union there is strength, and that union which has been cemented by the blood of our gallant brothers must be eternal, and let that man be anathemized and banned who with lying lip or evil heart would dare to weaken or dissolve it.

This measure had a anther reaching effect than merely giving the Union armies an increased supply of men.

At that time the union called a strike which lasted 110 days, the longest strike in anthracite history.

A thing is said to be assumable as being capable of being assumed by a Divine Person, and this capability cannot be taken with reference to the natural passive power, which does not extend to what transcends the natural order, as the personal union of a creature with God transcends it.

Hence it follows that a thing is said to be assumable according to some fitness for such a union.

Cohn, Roy, 156 Cold war, 46-47, 67-68, 102, 107-8, 139, 170: see also Soviet Union Colson, Charles, 208 Columbia University, 8, 10, 32, 33, 42, 45-49, 50, 52, 55, 97, 99, 100, 127, 139-40, 148, 160-61, 221 Columbus, Christopher, 142-43 Commentary, 79-80, 88, 118-19, 120, 127, 136, 141-46, 151, 160, 162-63, 164, 169-70, 172, 175, 176, 181-82, 194-95, 205, 222, 231 Communism, 73-78, 82-89, 142, 144, 168, 224: see also Marxism Americanization of, 76 anti-, 101-6 in mainstream politics, 180-81 Roosevelt and, 73-74 utopianism and, 178 Vietnam and, 172, 173, 174 WW II and, 83-89, 90, 92 Congress for Cultural Freedom, 104 Constitution, U.

Cardinal Julian and Bessarion archbishop of Nice, appeared in the pulpit, and, after reading in their respective tongues the act of union, they mutually embraced, in the name and the presence of their applauding brethren.