confederation

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[ US /kənˌfɛdɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /kənfˌɛdəɹˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being allied or confederated
  2. the act of forming an alliance or confederation
  3. a union of political organizations
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How To Use confederation In A Sentence

  • Prior to the 19th century, the region's social structure - outside of a few major cities, including Baghdad - was organized primarily around relatively isolated tribal confederations.
  • Instead of being a "multinational corporation," it will have to become a "transnational confederation. MANAGING IN TURBULENT TIMES
  • The United States once had to move from a confederation to a federation.
  • The hereditary president of the Confederation and commander of its troops was the King of Prussia, who embodied the principle of monarchical legitimacy.
  • 2003 – Under a new Constitutional Charter, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was reconstituted into a loose confederation of Serbia and Montenegro.
  • The document composed in Philadelphia transformed the confederation of sovereign states into a national government.
  • Under the SPLM's proposed confederation, the south and north would establish their own constitutions, with a common non-religious political system in the capital city.
  • The break-up of the confederacy followed a row between the two countries over the question of rotational leadership of the confederation.
  • Argentina's second-largest trade union confederation, led by teamster's leader Hugo Moyano, organized the protest.
  • The German language has a neat way of distinguishing between a loose confederation and a federal union.
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