Usually means: Organizations representing workers' collective interests.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word unions:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. unions: Merriam-Webster
  2. unions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Unions, unions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Union's, Unions, Unions, union's, unions, unions: Wordnik
  5. unions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Unions, unions: Wiktionary
  7. unions: Dictionary.com
  8. Unions: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Unions: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unions: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. unions: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Unions: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unions: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Unions: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. UNIONS: Acronym Finder

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  1. unions: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See union as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Union)

noun:  (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
noun:  (countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
noun:  (countable) Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
noun:  (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
noun:  (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
noun:  (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
noun:  (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
noun:  (countable) The act or state of marriage.
noun:  (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
noun:  (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
noun:  (countable, now rare, archaic) A large, high-quality pearl.
noun:  (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
verb:  (set theory) To combine sets using the union operation.
adjective:  Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
adjective:  (India) federal.
noun:  The 0-10-2 locomotive wheel arrangement.
noun:  The canton of the United States flag: the portion of the flag containing stars on a blue background.
noun:  (US, with determiner, dated, especially 19th century) The United States of America.
noun:  (US, with determiner, historical) Those of the United States that did not secede at the time of the Civil War (of the United States of America).
noun:  (with determiner, historical) The Soviet Union: the proper noun Union is the standard English translation of the proper noun Союз (Sojuz), and All-Union is the standard English translation of всесоюзный (vsesojuznyj).
noun:  Place names:
noun:  A community in Central Elgin municipality, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
noun:  A barangay of Ubay, Bohol, Philippines.
noun:  A village on the south cast of the island of Siargao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A town in Greene County, Alabama.
noun:  A ghost town in Merced County, California.
noun:  A former unincorporated community in Napa County, California.
noun:  A small town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
noun:  A village in McHenry County, Illinois.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clay Township, Pike County, Indiana.
noun:  A tiny city in Hardin County, Iowa.
noun:  A home rule city in Boone County, Kentucky.
noun:  A town in Knox County, Maine.
noun:  A town in Neshoba County and Newton County, Mississippi.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Missouri.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clark County, Missouri.
noun:  A village in Cass County, Nebraska.
noun:  A village and census-designated place in the town of Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
noun:  A hamlet in Madison County, New York.
noun:  A large town in Broome County, New York.
noun:  A city in Montgomery County and Miami County, Ohio.
noun:  A city in Union County, Oregon.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Union County, South Carolina.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Virginia.
noun:  A small town, the county seat of Monroe County, West Virginia.
noun:  A small town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A small town in Door County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A town and unincorporated community in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
noun:  An unincorporated community in the town of Lima, Grant County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A small town in Pierce County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A town and unincorporated community in Rock County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A small town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A large number of townships in the United States, listed under Union Township.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (Oxford University, informal) The Oxford Union (a debating society); not to be conflated with Oxford University Student Union (a students' union).
noun:  (chiefly India, with determiner, law) Alternative form of union [(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.]
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