confederation 音标拼音: [kənf
, ɛdɚ'eʃən]
n . 同盟,联盟,组织联盟
同盟,联盟,组织联盟
confederation n 1 :
the state of being allied or confederated [
synonym : {
alliance },
{
confederation }]
2 :
a union of political organizations [
synonym : {
confederation },
{
confederacy }, {
federation }]
3 :
the act of forming an alliance or confederation [
synonym :
{
confederation }, {
alliance }]
Confederation \
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n . [
L .
confoederatio :
cf .
F .
conf ['
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1 .
The act of confederating ;
a league ;
a compact for mutual support ;
alliance ,
particularly of princes ,
nations ,
or states .
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1913 Webster ]
The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves . --
Bacon .
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This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England . --
Palfrey .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
The parties that are confederated ,
considered as a unit ;
a confederacy .
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1913 Webster ]
{
Articles of confederation }.
See under {
Article }.
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1913 Webster ]
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "
confederation ":
Anschluss ,
Bund ,
Rochdale cooperative ,
addition ,
affiliation ,
agglomeration ,
aggregation ,
agreement ,
alignment ,
alliance ,
amalgamation ,
anschluss ,
assemblage ,
assimilation ,
association ,
axis ,
band ,
blend ,
blending ,
bloc ,
body ,
cabal ,
cahoots ,
cartel ,
centralization ,
coadunation ,
coalescence ,
coalition ,
colleagueship ,
college ,
collegialism ,
collegiality ,
combination ,
combine ,
combo ,
common market ,
composition ,
comradeship ,
confederacy ,
confraternity ,
congeries ,
conglomeration ,
conjugation ,
conjunction ,
consolidation ,
conspiracy ,
consumer cooperative ,
cooperative ,
cooperative society ,
copartnership ,
copartnery ,
corps ,
council ,
credit union ,
customs union ,
economic community ,
ecumenism ,
embodiment ,
encompassment ,
enosis ,
federalization ,
federation ,
fellowship ,
fraternalism ,
fraternity ,
fraternization ,
free trade area ,
freemasonry ,
fusion ,
gang ,
group ,
grouping ,
hookup ,
inclusion ,
incorporation ,
integration ,
junction ,
junta ,
league ,
machine ,
marriage ,
meld ,
melding ,
merger ,
mob ,
package ,
package deal ,
partnership ,
political machine ,
ring ,
society ,
sodality ,
solidification ,
sorority ,
syncretism ,
syndication ,
syneresis ,
synthesis ,
tie -
in ,
tie -
up ,
unification ,
union ,
wedding CONFEDERATION ,
government .
The name given to that form of government which the American colonies ,
on shaking off the British yoke ,
devised for their mutual safety and government .
2 .
The articles of confederation , (
q .
v .)
were finally adopted on the 15th of November ,
1777 ,
and with the exception of Maryland ,
which ,
however ,
afterwards also agreed to them ,
were speedily adopted by the United States ,
and by which they were formed into a federal @
bod y ,
and went into force on the first day of March ,
1781 ;
1 Story Const .
Sec .
225 ;
and so remained until the adoption of the present constitution ,
which acquired the force of the supreme law of the land on the first Wednesday of March ,
1789 .
5 Wheat .
R .
420 .
Vide Articles of Confederation .
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