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union language

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noun

  1. a form of a language, used in literature and for official and educational purposes, that combines vocabulary and grammatical features from a number of related dialects, thus representing a compromise between them.

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In union language there was no doubt that Unionists Walsh and Sweezy, like Unionist Davis, were being fired.

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