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nounthe state of being allied or confederated
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"the shifting alliances within a large family"nouna connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest
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nounthe act of forming an alliance or confederation
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nounan organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treatytype of:
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nouna formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim
Definition that contains alliance
- combination an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)
- lawrence English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
- alliance a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim
- alliance the act of forming an alliance or confederation
- yakuza organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises
- allies in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers
- allies the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945
- allies an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy
- hamburg a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League
- withdrawal formal separation from an alliance or federation