union

«union» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a group of workers who join together to protect their pay… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a union, unions; union, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) A union is a group of workers who join together to protect their pay and rights (a trade union, a labor union). tree →

2) A union is a group of countries or states joined together, such as the European Union or the United States (once called «the Union»). tree →

3) Union is the act of joining things together. tree →

4) In maths, the union of two sets is all the things that are in one set or the other or both. tree →

5) A union can also mean a marriage between two people. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, sets: A ∪ B is the union — every member of both sets, each listed once. In history and social studies, unions of workers, and countries forming unions. A student union is a club for university students. The Union Jack is the flag of the United Kingdom. Phrases: «trade union», «the European Union», «Union Jack», «the union of two sets».

examples

• The workers joined a union to ask for fair pay. tree →
• The United Kingdom is a union of four countries. tree →
• The union of the sets {1, 2, 3} and {3, 4} is {1, 2, 3, 4}. tree →
• The Union Jack flew over the town hall. tree →
• The union of two rivers made a big river. tree →
• Every member of the union voted. tree →
• For some years they lived happily together, and their union was blessed by the birth of two sons. tree →

note

Countable noun: «a union», «unions». Starts with a «you» sound, so we say «a union», not «an union». In maths, the union counts shared members only once: the union of {1, 2} and {2, 3} has 3 members, not 4. Do not confuse with «onion».

In the corpora

• There are also ways workers stand up for themselves: unions, strikes, picket lines and tribunals.
• Black Sea dolphins were hunted for oil and meat until hunting was banned, in the Soviet Union in 1966.
• Inside most of the European Union, the Schengen Area lets people cross borders without passport checks.
• After the Second World War the USA and the Soviet Union were rivals in the Cold War and raced to be first in space.
• In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «union» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.