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League and Union Definitions

League

An association of states, organizations, or individuals for common action; an alliance.

Union

The act of uniting or the state of being united.

League

(Sports) An association of teams or clubs that compete chiefly among themselves. Also called loop1.

Union

A combination so formed, especially an alliance or confederation of people, parties, or political entities for mutual interest or benefit.

League

A class or level of competition
The ski jump was out of his league.

Union

(Mathematics) A set, every member of which is an element of one or another of two or more given sets.
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League

A unit of distance equal to 3.0 statute miles (4.8 kilometers).

Union

Agreement or harmony resulting from the uniting of individuals; concord.

League

Any of various other units of about the same length.

Union

The state of matrimony; marriage
"The element that was to make possible such a union was trust in each other's love" (Kate Chopin).

League

A square league.

Union

Sexual intercourse.
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League

To come together in or as if in a league.

Union

A combination of parishes for joint administration of relief for the poor in Great Britain.

League

To bring together in or as if in a league.

Union

A workhouse maintained by such a union.

League

A group or association of cooperating members.
The League of Nations

Union

A labor union.
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League

(sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.

Union

A coupling device for connecting parts, such as pipes or rods.

League

Ellipsis of rugby league
Are you going to watch the league tonight?

Union

A device on a flag or ensign, occupying the upper inner corner or the entire field, that signifies the union of two or more sovereignties.

League

(negative polarity) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.
We're not even in the same league.

Union

An organization at a college or university that provides facilities for recreation; a student union.

League

A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).

Union

A building housing such facilities.

League

(military) An alliance or coalition.

Union

Union The United States of America regarded as a national unit, especially during the Civil War.

League

(measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).

Union

Union Of, relating to, or loyal to the United States of America during the Civil War
A Union soldier.

League

A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

Union

Of or relating to a labor union or labor union organizing
The union movement.
Union negotiations.

League

(ambitransitive) To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

Union

(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.

League

A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5,280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.

Union

(countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.

League

A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

Union

(countable) 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.

League

An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, organizations, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc.
And let there be'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.

Union

(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.

League

An association of sports teams that establishes rules of play, decides questions of membership in the league, and organizes matches between the member teams. In some cases a sports league is called a conference, as in the National Football Conference.

Union

(countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.

League

To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate.

Union

(countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.

League

To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.

Union

The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.

League

An association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members

Union

(countable) The act or state of marriage.

League

An association of states or organizations or individuals for common action

Union

Sexual intercourse.

League

An obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)

Union

A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.

League

Unite to form a league

Union

A large, high-quality pearl.

Union

(historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.

Union

To combine sets using the union operation.

Union

Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
Actors have to be union to get work here.

Union

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

Union

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

Union

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.

Union

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

Union

A large, fine pearl.
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.
In the cup an union shall he throw,Richer than that which four successive kingsIn Denmark's crown have worn.

Union

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.

Union

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.

Union

A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.
One kingdom, joy, and union without end.
[Man] is to . . . begetLike of his like, his image multiplied.In unity defective; which requiresCollateral love, and dearest amity.

Union

An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer;
You have to join the union in order to get a job

Union

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

Union

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

Union

The state of being joined or united or linked;
There is strength in union

Union

The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);
A long and happy marriage
God bless this union

Union

Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

Union

A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations;
The Soviet Union

Union

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

Union

The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts;
Lightning produced an unusual union of the metals

Union

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

Union

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

Union

Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War;
Union soldiers
Federal forces
A Federal infantryman

Union

Of trade unions;
The union movement
Union negotiations
A union-shop clause in the contract

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