CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS Synonyms

• a formal organization of people or groups of people

• the act of consorting with or joining with others

• the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination

• the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

• a social or business relationship

• a relation resulting from interaction or dependence

• (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

• (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species

• an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

• the state of being combined into one body

• the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

• the state of being allied or confederated

• a union of political organizations

• the act of forming an alliance or confederation

• an organization formed by merging several groups or parties

• a union of political organizations

• the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs

• of trade unions

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• the state of being joined or united or linked

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

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

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

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

• the act of making or becoming a single unit

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

• a federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955