Look up: confederation

1. confederation
   [n] - a union of political organizations 2. [n] - the act of forming an alliance or confederation
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2. confederation
   Form of union of individual states or societies. Confederation insists on the individual independence of each state or society in a common union, while federation insists on the supremacy of the...
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3. Confederation
   'parent' national union to which individual unions belong Category: Labour • the act itself Category: Politics
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4. Confederation
   Con·fed`er·a'tion noun [ Latin confoederatio : confer French confédération .] 1. The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states. « The three princes ...
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5. confederation
   confederacy noun a union of political organizations
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6. confederation
   alliance noun the act of forming an alliance or confederation
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7. Confederation
   • (n.) The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy. • (n.) The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states.
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8. confederation
   (from the article `political system`) Confederations are voluntary associations of independent states that, to secure some common purpose, agree to certain limitations on their freedom of ... The first significant step toward union, later called confederation, was the formation of the Great Coalition, a government that united George Bro...
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9. Confederation
   (from the article `Bolivia`) ...and he pursued policies of territorial expansion. In the 1830s he overthrew the Lima regime of General Agustín Gamarra and united Bolivia and Peru ...
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10. confederation
    A federal system of government in which sovereign constituent governments create a central government but balance of power remains with constituent governments.
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11. Confederation
    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.
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12. Confederation
    A `confederation` is an association of sovereign political units that, by treaty, have delegated certain of their competences (or powers) to common institutions, in order to coordinate their policies in a number of areas, without constituting a new state on top of the member states. Under internatio...
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13. Confederation
    (Poland) A `konfederacja` (Polish for "confederation") was an ad hoc association formed by Polish-Lithuanian nobility, clergy, cities or military forces in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for the attainment of stated aims. Such "confederations" acted in lieu of s...
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