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Unum Group – ‘8-K’ for 5/27/21 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On: Wednesday, 6/2/21, at 5:00pm ET · For: 5/27/21 · Accession #: 5513-21-129 · File #: 1-11294

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

 6/02/21  Unum Group                        8-K:5       5/27/21   11:241K

Current Report — Form 8-K

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     36K 
 7: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     51K 
 9: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     12K 
 6: XML         XBRL Instance -- unm-20210527_htm                    XML     27K 
 8: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      6K 
 3: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- unm-20210527_def                 XML     44K 
 4: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- unm-20210527_lab                      XML     91K 
 5: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- unm-20210527_pre               XML     44K 
 2: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- unm-20210527                          XSD     12K 
10: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               15±    21K 
11: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000005513-21-000129-xbrl      Zip     16K

‘EX-101.DEF’ — XBRL Definitions — unm-20210527_def

This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.

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Unum Group – ‘8-K’ for 5/27/21 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On: Wednesday, 6/2/21, at 5:00pm ET · For: 5/27/21 · Accession #: 5513-21-129 · File #: 1-11294

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