ALLIANCES Synonyms

• an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members

• an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action

• an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)

• unite to form a league

• of trade unions

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• the state of being joined or united or linked

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

• a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

• the act of making or becoming a single unit

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

• a formal organization of people or groups of people

• the act of consorting with or joining with others

• the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination

• the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

• a social or business relationship

• a relation resulting from interaction or dependence

• (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

• (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species

• an organization formed by merging several groups or parties

• a union of political organizations

• the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs

• the members of a business venture created by contract

• a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal

• a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses

• the state of being allied or confederated

• a union of political organizations

• the act of forming an alliance or confederation

• (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody

• (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship

• (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts

• a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character

• the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule

• inherent resemblance between persons or things

• a natural attraction or feeling of kinship

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

• the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines

• (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac

• the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other

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

• United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)

• an electrical force linking atoms

• British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming

• a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal

• a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest

• (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial

• a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

• a connection that fastens things together

• a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents

• the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

• stick to firmly

• create social or emotional ties

• issue bonds on

• bring together in a common cause or emotion

• a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)

• the state of being connected

• an instrumentality that connects

• (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)

• the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

• a connecting shape

• a supplier (especially of narcotics)

• shifting from one form of transportation to another

• the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)

• a cooperative unit (especially in sports)

• two or more draft animals that work together to pull something

• form a team