civil union
noun
: the legal status that ensures to same-sex couples specified rights and responsibilities of married couples
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Latvia could take a similar step in the next days or weeks, with its civil union bill only a vote away from being approved, providing the president doesn’t veto it. 
Enrique Anarte Lazo, NBC News, 7 June 2022 John and Furnish, now 73 and 58, respectively, met in 1993, had a civil union in 2005 and welcomed sons Zachary and Elijah via surrogacy in 2010 and 2013. Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021 That document was issued after Rome criticized Bergoglio for refusing to speak up strongly when Buenos Aires extended civil union protections to gay couples within the capital region in 2002, Ivereigh wrote. Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2020 The pope's civil union remarks have raised both hopes and doubts for gay Catholics. NBC News, 23 Oct. 2020 After the anecdote ends, the film cuts to Francis' civil union comments in the Televisa interview. Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2020 In an interview with the Italian bishops’ TV channel, Father Antonio Spadaro, a close Francis ally, said the pope’s civil union remark had come from that 2019 sit-down. Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020 Tontian said Cyprus' Prisons Director Anna Aristotelous and her deputy Athena Demetrou helped do some of the legwork in gathering the appropriate paperwork for the civil union ceremony. NBC News, 16 Jan. 2020 Joint filing status is not available to couples in civil unions or domestic partnerships. cleveland, 22 Mar. 2020 See More
Enrique Anarte Lazo, NBC News, 7 June 2022 John and Furnish, now 73 and 58, respectively, met in 1993, had a civil union in 2005 and welcomed sons Zachary and Elijah via surrogacy in 2010 and 2013. Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021 That document was issued after Rome criticized Bergoglio for refusing to speak up strongly when Buenos Aires extended civil union protections to gay couples within the capital region in 2002, Ivereigh wrote. Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2020 The pope's civil union remarks have raised both hopes and doubts for gay Catholics. NBC News, 23 Oct. 2020 After the anecdote ends, the film cuts to Francis' civil union comments in the Televisa interview. Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2020 In an interview with the Italian bishops’ TV channel, Father Antonio Spadaro, a close Francis ally, said the pope’s civil union remark had come from that 2019 sit-down. Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020 Tontian said Cyprus' Prisons Director Anna Aristotelous and her deputy Athena Demetrou helped do some of the legwork in gathering the appropriate paperwork for the civil union ceremony. NBC News, 16 Jan. 2020 Joint filing status is not available to couples in civil unions or domestic partnerships. cleveland, 22 Mar. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1992, in the meaning defined above
Legal Definition
civil union
noun
: the legal status that ensures to same-sex couples specified rights and responsibilities of married couples
Note: Following Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___ (2015), civil unions in some states were converted to marriages by operation of law, or could be converted by action of the couple.
civil union
noun
as in domestic partnership
Synonyms & Similar Words
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- domestic partnership
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- conjugality
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