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US
/kənˌfɛdɝˈeɪʃən/
]
[ UK /kənfˌɛdəɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /kənfˌɛdəɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the state of being allied or confederated
- the act of forming an alliance or confederation
- a union of political organizations
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.