Word Finder - unions

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

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

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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.

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A trade union; a workers' union.

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

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

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

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The act or state of marriage.

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Sexual intercourse.

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

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A large, high-quality pearl.

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

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To combine sets using the union operation.

In the various colonial Methodist unions the Bible Christians have contributed a total of 159 ministers, 14,925 members and 660 chapels.

As early as1652-1654there is evidence of some slight organization for dealing with marriages, poor relief, " disorderly walkers," matters of arbitration, &c. The Quarterly or " General " meetings of the different counties seem to have been the first unions of separate congregations.

Physico-chemical properties have also been drawn upon to decide whether double unions are present in the benzene complex; but here the predilections of the observers apparently influence the nature of the conclusions to be drawn from such data.

These unions for the most part aimed, not at incorporating the two churches in doctrine and in worship, but at bringing churches or congregations professing different confessions under one government and discipline.

Columella regarded the gains from the births as a sufficient motive for encouraging these unions, and thought that mothers should be rewarded for their fecundity; Varro, too, seems to have taken this view.

When these various unions of dealers and of craftsmen embraced all the trades and branches of production in the town, little or no vitality remained in the old gild merchant; it ceased to have an independent sphere of activity.

Patents, designs and trade marks are now dealt with by the patent office under the charge of a controller-general (salary £1800), which is subordinate to the railway department, and copyright, art unions and industrial exhibitions are also among the matters dealt with by the department.

Experiment showed that legitimate unions yield a larger quantity of seed than illegitimate.

The council, however, desirous of negotiating unions with the minor churches of the East, remained in session for several years, and seems never to have reached a formal adjournment.

History shows that states forming unions of the second class are certain in after time to deny or assert that the sovereignty of the state is one of the rights reserved, according as the state belongs to a stronger or weaker section or faction; state sovereignty being the defence of the weaker state or faction, and being denied by the stronger group of states which controls the government and which asserts that a new sovereign state was created by a union of the former independent ones.

The Labour unions were able to secure in these years many concessions both as to hours and wages.

The capitularies of 805 and 821 also contain vague references to sworn unions of some sort, and a capitulary of 884 prohibits villeins from forming associations "vulgarly called gilds" against those who have despoiled them.

In federal unions, such as Mexico and Brazil where a central authority existed first and created the states, the belief in state rights is much weaker than it is in unions composed of originally independent states.

The divergences in ritual and organization, the principle underlying all the various ecclesiastical unions, viz.

At the same time he was prominent in the movement for the formation of labour unions, and at the congress of working men at Nantes in 1894 he secured the adoption of the labour union idea against the adherents of Jules Guesde.

Attempts have been made to find in them the progenitors of the trades unions, but there seems to be no immediate connexion between the latter and the craft gilds.

Outcasts alone, the offspring of irregular unions, could be ignorant of the blood which ran in their veins, of the unseen ancestors to be fed and tended in family and gentile rites.'

He feared also whether we can explain the mystery of the Incarnation, and other things, unless real bonds or unions are added to monads and phenomena.

Clubs were openly organized, pamphlets and journals appeared, regardless of administrative orders; workmens unions multiplied in Paris, Bordeaux and Lyons, in face of drastic pro hibition; and anarchy finally set in with the defection of the army in Paris on the 23rd of June, at Nancy, at Metz and at Brest.

Such unions as hers with James Hamilton were long not uncommon in the West Indies.

This district may of itself constitute a poor law union; but in the great majority of cases the unions, or areas under the jurisdiction of boards of guardians according to the Poor-Law Amendment Act of 1834, are made up of aggregated poor-law parishes.

Groener was instrumental in maintaining, in spite of strikes and other difficulties, the cooperation of the German trade unions in securing a steady supply of munitions.

First, the balance of power in wage bargaining has shifted as union coverage has declined and the unions have become far less adversarial.

It is a joint industry, unions and government advisory body.

Election website launched by unions Trade unions affiliated to the Labor party have opened a website in anticipation of a General Election in May.

To deal with this, unions usually negotiate an agreement to protect the pay of any losers for a period of time.

The creaking world economy was started up again by a coalition of industrial capitalists and government, with the trade unions as junior partner.

Many unions have suffered from years of bureaucratisation by right wing careerists and New Labor sycophants.

Daewoo Declared Bankrupt Creditors of Daewoo declared south Korea's third biggest carmaker bankrupt last Wednesday after unions rejected a restructuring plan calling for layoffs.

Above all, the Thatcher reforms reversed economic centralism, by curbing the power of national unions and through privatization.

However, in a period of acute class struggle, the bureaucracy of the trade unions inevitably plays a treacherous role.

The unions in response confirm how they will seek to exercise the newly restored right of free collective bargaining.

The company insists it has " normal relations " with 12 unions in Colombia, including collective bargaining covering wages and working conditions.

We must spread communism in the parliaments, in the trades unions and in the Party organizations.

Pressure from the unions had won a concession saying that a third of the money being put in would go toward that.

The UK Spending Review 2004 announcements rightly drew condemnation from the civil service unions.

The eight-hour stoppage, called by the metalworking unions from all three Italian union confederations -. .

Will the children of such unions be enriched by the dual heritage that they have, or be hopelessly confused?

Only two unions disagreed, with one of them even suggesting a triennial congress.

This was how the utterly corrupt bureaucracy of the British trade unions received its training.

This tribe may legally marry within the totem, but always avoids such unions.

That strike had been liberally helped by the Australian unions, and it was confidently predicted that, as the Australian workers were more effectively organized than the English unions, a corresponding success would result from their course of action.

The Italian Federation of Agrarian Unions has greatly contributed to agricultural progress.

Although in some industrial centres the working-class movement has assumed an importance equal to that of other countries, there is no general working-class organization comparable to the English trade unions.

The last named was opened in 1904, and is controlled by the Winona Lake corporation, having official connexion with several national trade unions.

Trade unions, so far from disappearing, were legalized, gathered strength from the changes in industrial organization, and nowhere became so powerful as in the most progressive industries; while other forms of combination appeared, incomparably stronger, for good or evil, than those of earlier times.

In this scheme birds are arranged according to what the author considered to be their natural method and sequence; but the result exhibits some unions as ill-assorted as can well be met with in the whole range of tentative arrangements of the class, together with some very unjustifiable divorces.

The heat of combustion, as first determined by Julius Thomsen, agreed rather better with the presence of nine single unions.

Including all unions the total is below the European proportion, but above that of Porto Rico or Jamaica in 1899.

The change was emphasized by the active intervention in politics of the trade unions.