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.
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Civil(adj) pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state. 2  Civil(adj) subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.