union
unification
uniting
conjugation jointure | 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 |
| Royal National Eisteddfod | an eisteddfod with competitions in music and drama and poetry and the fine arts |
| national service | compulsory service in the military during peacetime |
| national censorship | censorship under civil authority of communications entering or leaving of crossing the borders of the United States or its territories or possessions |
coupling
mating
pairing
conjugation
union sexual 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 |
| national insurance | social insurance program in Britain, based on contributions from employers and employees, provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services |
supplementary benefit
social assistance
national assistance | benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law |
Cooper Union
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | university founded in by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences |
long underwear
union suit | an undergarment with shirt and drawers in one piece |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
| National Baseball Hall of Fame | a Hall of Fame and museum in Cooperstown, New York, honoring great baseball players |
National Library of Medicine
United States National Library of Medicine
U.S. National Library of Medicine | the world's largest medical library |
| national monument | memorial consisting of a structure or natural landmark of historic interest, set aside by national government for preservation and public enjoyment |
| student union | a building on a college campus dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body |
| union | a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) |
Union Jack
Union flag | national flag of the United Kingdom |
| union card | a card certifying membership in a labor union |
Higher National Diploma
HND | a diploma given for vocational training that prepares the student for a career in a particular area, good students may progress to a course leading to a degree |
trade policy
national trading policy | a government's policy controlling foreign trade |
national flag
ensign | an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality |
| national anthem | a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation |
| union | the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts, lightning produced an unusual union of the metals |
| Grand National | an annual steeplechase run in Liverpool, England |
| union sum join | 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 |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
National Liberation Army
ELN
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission
CNPZ | a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups, a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the s |
| National Liberation Army ELN | a Marxist terrorist group formed in by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution, responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade, ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations |
National Liberation Front of Corsica
FLNC | a terrorist group formed in to work for Corsican independence, attacks on Corsica are aimed at sabotaging public infrastructure and symbols of colonialism |
National Trust
NT | an organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty, founded in and supported by endowment and private subscription |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA | an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight |
National Archives and Records Administration
NARA | the independent agency that oversees management of federal government records including presidential libraries and historic collections |
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB | an independent agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions |
National Science Foundation
NSF | an independent agency of the federal government responsible for the promotion of progress in science and engineering by supporting programs in research and education |
National Security Council
NSC | a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security, supervises the Central Intelligence Agency |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA | an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources, predicts changes to the earth's environment, provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather |
National Climatic Data Center
NCDC | the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data |
| National Weather Service | the federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps |
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST | an agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs |
National Technical Information Service
NTIS | an agency in the Technology Administration that is a primary resource for government-funded scientific and technical and engineering and business related information |
National Institutes of Health
NIH | an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health, is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government |
| National Park Service | an agency of the Interior Department responsible for the national parks |
National Institute of Justice
NIJ | the law enforcement agency that is the research and development branch of the Department of Justice |
European Union
EU
European Community
EC
European Economic Community
EEC
Common Market
Europe | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members, he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union |
| Pan American Union | the administrative agency of the Organization of American States |
Air National Guard
ANG | a civilian reserve component of the United States Air Force that provides prompt mobilization during war and assistance during national emergencies |
union labor union
trade union
trades union
brotherhood | an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer, you have to join the union in order to get a job |
industrial union
vertical union | a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft |
| Teamsters Union | an industrial union of truck drivers and chauffeurs and warehouse workers |
| craft union | a labor union whose membership is restricted to workers in a particular craft |
| credit union | a cooperative depository financial institution whose members can obtain loans from their combined savings |