Synonyms for coalition
ˌkoʊ əˈlɪʃ əncoali·tion

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1. coalition

   Alliance is in its most common use a connection formed by treaty between sovereign states as for mutual aid in war. Partnership is a mercantile word; alliance chiefly political or matrimonial. Coalition is oftenest used of political parties; fusion is now the more common word in this sense. In an alliance between nations there is no surrender of sovereignty, and no union except for a specified time and purpose. League and alliance are used with scarcely perceptible difference of meaning. In a confederacy or confederation there is an attempt to unite separate states in a general government without surrender of sovereignty. Union implies so much concession as to make the separate states substantially one. Federation is mainly a poetic and rhetorical word expressing something of the same thought, as in Tennyson's "federation of the world," Locksley Hall, l. 128. The United States is not a confederacy nor an alliance; the nation might be called a federation, but prefers to be styled a federal union.

   Synonyms:
   alliance, compact, confederacy, confederation, federation, fusion, league, partnership, union

   Antonyms:
   antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, enmity, hostility, schism, secession, separation, war

   Preposition:
   Alliance with a neighboring people; against the common enemy; for offense and defense; alliance of, between, or among nations.

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1. alliance, coalition, alignment, alinementnoun

   an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

   Synonyms:
   alinement, coalescence, bond, concretion, conglutination, fusion, alliance, alignment, confederation, conjunction, coalescency

2. coalition, fusionnoun

   the state of being combined into one body

   Synonyms:
   alinement, merger, coalescence, unification, nuclear fusion reaction, conglutination, nuclear fusion, concretion, alignment, fusion, spinal fusion, optical fusion, alliance, coalescency

3. coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutinationnoun

   the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

   Synonyms:
   alinement, coalescency, coalescence, union, concretion, compression, fusion, alliance, compaction, alignment, calculus, densification, conglutination

Matched Categories

1. • Organization
   • Union

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1. coalitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   Coalition union, alliance, confederacy, federation, confederation, league, combination, copartnership, compact, federal compact, federal union

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1. List of paraphrases for "coalition":

   alliance, allied, coalitions, iwhc, catw, upfa, allying, angoc, rassemblement

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1. President Obama:

   Our coalition will not relent, they can not beat us on battlefield, so they ’ll try to terrorize us into being afraid. … As president, I will not let that happen. I will not give into fear.

2. Bo Machayo:

   I think this proposal and memo really makes a lot of sense. There's a lot of great diversity in this coalition, and this memo will help drive administration priorities with a particular eye to Young Americans, the more we have young Americans involved in government, the more it starts working for the next generation of Americans.

3. Tony Abbott:

   The RET represents a bipartisan solution, and we applaud the Coalition and ALP (Australian Labor Party) for achieving that, it's important that the views of all groups are heard, and that any concerns are addressed with fact and science.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   We should be putting together a coalition of Arab countries who should be leading the effort.

5. Kieran Curtis:

   We expect trend weakness in Turkey though we wouldn't be surprised to see a rally in the near term if a government is formed, with a coalition, there will probably be a greater requirement for pork-barrel politics and the question is will this endanger the fiscal conservatism that's been a hallmark of Turkey so far. We feel quite uncomfortable with this mix.