CONFEDERACY Synonyms

• 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 state of being allied or confederated

• a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest

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

• a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim

• the act of forming an alliance or confederation

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

• the state of being combined into one body

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

• a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities

• a coordinated sequence of chess moves

• a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock

• a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose

• an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)

• the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order

• the act of combining things to form a new whole

• an association of companies for some definite purpose

• 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

• 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

• 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 secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

• a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

• a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

• a large metal pot (12 gallon camp kettle) for cooking; used in military camps

• the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

• the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

• situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south

• the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line

• the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees

• the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

• a location in the southern part of a country, region, or city

• the direction corresponding to the southward cardinal compass point

• in a southern direction

• the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

• the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861