UNIONS Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

unions

noun

plural of union

as in mergers

the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one the union of East Germany and West Germany that became possible after the fall of communism

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as in coalitions

an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection in 1949 the U.S. and Canada joined their European allies in a transatlantic union to defend Western Europe from aggression by the Soviet Union

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the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters) the movie studio is producing the blockbuster in union with another studio because of the tremendous cost involved

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Recent Examples of unions LaFayette later trained Black youth to become leaders in the Chicago Freedom Movement and helped organize tenant unions. —

CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026 Combining the news-gathering operation stateside will be trickier, as CBS News has employees and vendors that operate under contracts with the Writers Guild of America East, SAG-AFTRA and other unions. —

Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026 Vance once entertained grand ideas of putting workers on corporate boards, as in Germany, and letting unions negotiate across an entire industry at once, as in Scandinavia, rather than company by company. —

Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026 Jewish leaders rose through the labor movement, helped found and lead unions, and became architects of the New Deal coalition. —

Jacki Karsh, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026 Ned Kimmelman, Boca Raton Delores Rangel is the rare candidate who’s not dangling from strings attached to a political action committee, developers or unions with contracts before the city. —

Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026 The legislation is also endorsed by United Auto Workers Region 6 and Union of American Physicians and Dentists, unions that represent thousands of researchers across the state. —

Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026 LaFayette later trained Black youth to become leaders in the Chicago Freedom Movement and helped organize tenant unions. —

ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026 Automakers must design, test and validate parts and then entire cars, negotiate new contracts with suppliers, negotiate with unions over jobs and work conditions, retool factories and more before a new design is ready to build. —

Sean Tucker, AJC.com, 27 Feb. 2026

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Hollywood is still reeling from previous mergers, in addition to a sharp pullback in film and television production locally as filmmakers chase tax credits offered overseas and in other states, including New York and New Jersey.

— Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
Still, mergers can come with drawbacks, experts said.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 4 Mar. 2026