English Listening Practice: Team Discussion on New Store Location Strategy

noun

1. a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to

Synonym: docketschedule

2. a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)

Synonym: agendumorder of business

noun

1. the act of making or becoming a single unit

e.g. the union of opposing factions
he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays

Synonym: unificationunitingconjugationjointure

2. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

e.g. the casual couplings of adolescents
the mating of some species occurs only in the spring

Synonym: couplingmatingpairingconjugationsexual union

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

4. the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

e.g. lightning produced an unusual union of the metals

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

e.g. let C be the union of the sets A and B

Synonym: sumjoin

6. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

e.g. you have to join the union in order to get a job

Synonym: labor uniontrade uniontrades unionbrotherhood

7. a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

e.g. the Soviet Union

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

Synonym: conglutination

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

e.g. a long and happy marriage
God bless this union

Synonym: marriagematrimonyspousal relationshipwedlock

10. the state of being joined or united or linked

e.g. there is strength in union

Synonym: unification