confederacy vs union

union vs confederacy

confederacy and union both are nouns.

confederacy is not an adjective while union is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confederacy	Yes	No	No	No
union	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, union is a hypernym of confederacy; that is, union is a word with a broader meaning than confederacy:

confederacy: a union of political organizations
union: a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

confederacy (noun)	union (noun)
a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act	the act of making or becoming a single unit
a union of political organizations	the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose	a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
	the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
	an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
	a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
	a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
	healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
	the state of being joined or united or linked
	the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

confederacy (adjective)	union (adjective)
	of trade unions

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