(n): a group of people who work together
(n): the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
(n): North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
(n): the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
(n): activities associated with sexual intercourse
(n): the state of being joined or united or linked
(n): the way something is with respect to its main attributes
(n): the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
(n): the condition of being married or unmarried
(n): healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
(n): the natural process by which the body repairs itself
(n): a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
(n): a unit with political responsibilities
(n): a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
(n): a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
(n): the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
(n): an event that happens
(n): a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
(n): an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
(n): the act of making or becoming a single unit
(n): the act of combining things to form a new whole
(adj): being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
(adj): vs. southern) -- (in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
(adj): vs. nonunion) -- (of trade unions
(adj): prenominal) -- (requiring union membership
(adj): being a member of or formed into a labor union
rent-seeking labour cartel