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UK
/ɐlˈaɪəns/
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[ US /əˈɫaɪəns/ ]
[ US /əˈɫaɪəns/ ]
NOUN
- the state of being allied or confederated
- 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
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a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest
their friendship constitutes a powerful bond between them
the shifting alliances within a large family - an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
How To Use alliance In A Sentence
- A strategic alliance may take the form of an outright acquisition, minority stake, joint venture or brand franchise.
- Even the normal Perigordine fare of duck la gras and truffles washed down with red wine and pastis has yielded in favour of Scottish food and drink in celebration of the Auld Alliance.
- Instead, it has vaguely proposed some form of co-operation or alliance with Pirelli.
- An alliance with Britain would offer no guarantees with regard to territorial integrity of the Netherlands in Europe.
- The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
- Lowe wrote claiming that Sutton was trying to undermine him and forge an alliance with the Founders.
- Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
- All these different political elements have somehow been yoked together to form a new alliance.
- Some Balts hoped that, if and when they joined the EU, it would be a surrogate for a formal military alliance.
- To study viral infections, Weitz teamed with postdoctoral fellow Yuriy Mileyko, graduate student Richard Joh and Eberhard Voit, who is a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, the David D. Flanagan Chair Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems and director of the new Integrative BioSystems Institute at Georgia Tech. Nearly all previous theoretical studies have claimed that switching between "lysis" and Innovations-report