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Unum Group – ‘8-K’ for 3/31/21 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Monday, 4/5/21, at 4:59pm ET   ·   For:  3/31/21   ·   Accession #:  5513-21-84   ·   File #:  1-11294

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 4/05/21  Unum Group                        8-K:1,9     3/31/21   15:2M

Current Report   —   Form 8-K
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     33K 
 2: EX-2.1      Plan of Acquisition, Reorganization, Arrangement,   HTML    271K 
                Liquidation or Succession                                        
 3: EX-2.2      Plan of Acquisition, Reorganization, Arrangement,   HTML    273K 
                Liquidation or Succession                                        
 4: EX-2.3      Plan of Acquisition, Reorganization, Arrangement,   HTML    275K 
                Liquidation or Succession                                        
11: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     52K 
13: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     14K 
10: XML         XBRL Instance -- unm-20210331_htm                    XML     28K 
12: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      6K 
 6: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- unm-20210331_cal                XML      8K 
 7: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- unm-20210331_def                 XML     45K 
 8: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- unm-20210331_lab                      XML     92K 
 9: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- unm-20210331_pre               XML     45K 
 5: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- unm-20210331                          XSD     14K 
14: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               15±    23K 
15: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000005513-21-000084-xbrl      Zip    178K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — unm-20210331_def

This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.

                                                                                                                                                                                
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