Coalition - English meaning

noun

The state or process of affiliating or being affiliated.

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The group has no affiliation to any preservation society

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The relationship between two companies that are officially connected to each other

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And that's exactly what's behind our new affiliation: growing the business.

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Arrangement in a straight line or in correct relative positions.

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The tiles had slipped out of alignment

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An arrangement in which two or more things are positioned in a straight line or parallel to each other

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In alignment this mattress supports the body in a way that keeps the neck and spine in alignment., …

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A union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations.

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A defensive alliance between australia and new zealand

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A group of countries, political parties, or people who work together because of shared interests or aims, or the act of forming such a group

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[ c ] switzerland does not belong to any military alliance., [ u ] alliance against our common enem…

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An agreement to work with another person, organization, etc. to try to achieve the same thing

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A business/economic/marketing alliance, forge/form/enter into an alliance with sb/sth the company w…

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The action, process, or result of combining or uniting.

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The threat of amalgamation with another college

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(often in names) a group of people organized for a joint purpose.

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The national association of probation officers

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A group of people united in an organization because of their common interests

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The aarp, the american association of retired persons, is a huge organization with millions of memb…

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A group of people or organizations who work together for a particular purpose, often used in the names of particular organizations

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The creation of more part-time jobs is supported by the employers' association., a business/profess…

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A group of countries or political parties with common interests who have formed an alliance.

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The soviet bloc

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(in some us states) a meeting at which local members of a political party register their preference among candidates running for office or select delegates to attend a convention.

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Hawaii holds its nominating caucuses next tuesday

verb

Hold or form a legislative caucus.

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Republicans briefly caucused

noun

A kombi

verb

Join or merge to form a single unit or substance.

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Combine the flour with the margarine and salt

noun

A group of people or companies acting together for a commercial purpose.

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One of the world's biggest food and personal products combines

verb

Harvest (a crop) by means of a combine harvester.

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He combined ten acres of linseed

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A league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

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The italian confederacy known as the lombard league

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The eleven southern states that left the us and fought against the north in the us civil war

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An organization which consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league.

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A confederation of trade unions

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A group of countries, organizations, or people who have joined together for economic or political reasons

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[ c ] a union confederation

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An organization consisting of different groups of people, countries, or companies working together for business or political reasons

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Never before has a confederation of small businesses so seriously challenged the onslaught of big d…

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A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if ).

noun

A word such as "and," "but," "because," or "although" that connects words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence

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[ u ] physicists are working in conjunction with engineers on the project.

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An association, typically of several companies.

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It would move the commissioning of care to local authorities, giving democratic control of the heal…

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A friendly understanding or informal alliance between states or factions.

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The emperor hoped to bring about an entente with russia

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A friendly agreement or relationship between two countries

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A group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs.

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The russian federation

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A group of organizations, states, etc., that have united to form a larger organization or government

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Canada is a federation of provinces and territories.

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A group of organizations, regions, countries, etc. that have joined together to form a larger organization or government

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A federation of states/companies/trade unions, etc. the united states is a federation of 50 individ…

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A collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for mutual protection or cooperation.

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The league of nations

verb

Join in a league or alliance.

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Oscar had leagued with other construction firms

noun

A former measure of distance by land, usually about three miles.

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In 1803 napoleon exiled her to twenty leagues, roughly fifty miles, from paris.

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A combination of two things, especially companies, into one.

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A merger between two supermarket chains

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The combining of two or more companies or organizations into one

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A situation when two or more companies, organizations, departments, etc. join together

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The boards finally approved the merger between the two energy groups., merger of two companies, etc…

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The state of being a partner or partners.

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We should go on working together in partnership

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An agreement between organizations, people, etc. to work together

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A partnership between sb/sth and sb/sth the government is promoting a partnership between the state…

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A group of individuals or organizations combined to promote a common interest.

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Large-scale buyouts involving a syndicate of financial institutions

verb

Control or manage by a syndicate.

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We syndicate stores for retailers, which have fixed-price as their model.

noun

A group of people or companies that join together in order to share the cost of a business operation, such as the buying and publishing of newspaper stories, photographs, etc.

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The action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, especially in a political context.

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He was opposed to closer political or economic union with europe

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The act or the state of being joined together

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An organization that represents the people who work in a particular industry, protects their rights and may agree pay, working conditions, etc. with their employers

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"no date has yet been set for a strike, the union said in a statement to the press this morning., t…