As of January 2010, the 4-week Ranger Indoctrination Program (RIP) has become RASP (Ranger Assessment and Selection Program) and is now 8 weeks long. There are two separate phases in the RASP program.
Definition of civil union for English Language Learners. : a legal relationship between two people of the same sex that gives them some of the same rights and responsibilities that married people have.
Meaning: A voluntary union for life (or until divorce) of adult parties of the same sex. Classified under: Nouns denoting stable states of affairs. Context example: parties to a civil union have all the same benefits, protections, and responsibilities under Vermont law as spouses in a marriage. Hypernyms (civil union is a kind of...):