Union ˈjuːniən Meeting Joined Teachers Member Noun England

• i've joined the union.
• teachers' unions in england are demanding the same improvements as in scotland.
• a union leader/official/representative/activist
• the right to form a union

union

1. an organization of workers, usually in a particular industry, that exists to protect their interests, improve conditions of work, etc.
• I've joined the union.
• Teachers' unions in England are demanding the same improvements as in Scotland.
• a union leader/official/representative/activist
• the right to form a union
• Do you belong to a union?
• The union represents five million workers.
• public sector unions
• Greece's main workers' union
• a union member
• a member of a union
• a fall in union membership

Extra Examples

• She became active in the teachers' union.
• The nurses' union negotiated a 3% pay rise.
• The union represents 40% of all hospital workers.
• The union threatened strike action if its demands were not met.
• He spoke out at a meeting of the National Union of Journalists.
• The figures come from a survey by public-sector unions.
• The news emerged yesterday after a meeting between managers and union representatives.
• unofficial action not authorized by the union leadership
2. an association or a club for people or organizations with the same interest
• SEE ALSO credit union
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/credit-union
• the Scottish Rugby Union
3. a group of states or countries that have the same central government or that agree to work together
• SEE ALSO customs union
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/customs-union
• the former Soviet Union
• the European Union
• Churchill was not hostile to the continent's attempt at forming a union.
• The crisis will be discussed as a meeting of African Union leaders this week.
4. the US (used especially at the time of the Civil War)
• the Union and the Confederacy
• the State of the Union address by the President
5. the act of joining two or more things together; the state of being joined together
• a meeting to discuss economic and currency union
• Northern Ireland’s union with Britain
• the union between mainland Tanzania and the Zanzibar Island
• sexual union

Extra Examples

• Some of the member states wanted a closer union rather than the loose confederation that developed.
• a move in the direction of full political union
• currency union between the two countries
6. a marriage
• Their union was blessed with six children.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French, or from ecclesiastical Latin unio(n-) ‘unity’, from Latin unus ‘one’.