Usually means: Legal recognition of a partnership.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word civil union:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. civil union: Merriam-Webster
  2. civil union: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. civil union: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. civil union: Vocabulary.com
  5. civil-union: Wordnik
  6. civil union: Wiktionary
  7. civil union: Dictionary.com
  8. Civil Union, Civil union: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. civil union: Rhymezone
  10. civil union: FreeDictionary.org
  11. civil union: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. civil union: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. civil union: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. civil union: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See civil_unions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (civil union)

noun:  A legal union similar to marriage, established to allow same-sex couples (and, in some jurisdictions, opposite-sex couples) rights similar to those married couples have.

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