单词：unions
n the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
n the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
n the state of being joined or united or linked
n the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
n healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
n a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
n a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
n the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
n a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
n the act of making or becoming a single unit
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