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confederation

/kuhn-fed-uh-rey-shuhn/US // kənˌfɛd əˈreɪ ʃən //UK // (kənˌfɛdəˈreɪʃən) //

邦联,同盟会,同盟国,同盟

Related Words

league联赛,联盟,联谊会,联盟的alliance联盟,联盟的,联盟的工作guild公会,行会,协会,公社federation联合会,联邦,联会,联邦制congress大会,议会,国会,国议会fellowship团契,友好关系,友谊,友谊赛brotherhood兄弟关系,兄弟情谊,兄弟情,兄弟会partnership伙伴关系,合作关系,合作伙伴,合伙企业coalition联盟,联盟的,联盟的情况sorority联谊会,女生联谊会,女学生联谊会,女同学联谊会society社会,社团,协会,社群bloc块状物,块状,块状结构,块confederacy邦联,同盟会,同盟,同盟国fraternity兄弟会,博爱,博爱会,友谊会syndicate联合体,联合组织,联合会,联合总会organization组织,组织机构,机构,组织结构cartel卡特尔,卡特尔公司,卡特罗,锞庮枔鐛忥線sisterhood姐妹情谊,姐妹关系,姐妹之情,姐妹情order秩序,订单,顺序,命令association协会,协会简介,社团,关联

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of confederating.
    • : the state of being confederated.
    • : a league or alliance.
    • : a group of confederates, especially of states more or less permanently united for common purposes.
    • : the Confederation, the union of the 13 original U.S. states under the Articles of Confederation 1781–89.
    • : the federation of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, formed in 1867 and constituting the Dominion of Canada.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noununion
Synonyms
alliance联盟,联盟的,联盟的工作association协会,协会简介,社团,关联bloc块状物,块状,块状结构,块brotherhood兄弟关系,兄弟情谊,兄弟情,兄弟会cartel卡特尔,卡特尔公司,卡特罗,锞庮枔鐛忥線coalition联盟,联盟的,联盟的情况confederacy邦联,同盟会,同盟,同盟国congress大会,议会,国会,国议会federation联合会,联邦,联会,联邦制fellowship团契,友好关系,友谊,友谊赛fraternity兄弟会,博爱,博爱会,友谊会guild公会,行会,协会,公社league联赛,联盟,联谊会,联盟的order秩序,订单,顺序,命令organization组织,组织机构,机构,组织结构partnership伙伴关系,合作关系,合作伙伴,合伙企业sisterhood姐妹情谊,姐妹关系,姐妹之情,姐妹情society社会,社团,协会,社群sorority联谊会,女生联谊会,女学生联谊会,女同学联谊会syndicate联合体,联合组织,联合会,联合总会

Examples

  • In 2017, Ahmad had uprooted CAF’s longest-serving president, Issa Hayatou, who had ruled the confederation with an iron fist for 29 years.

  • Before Parler went offline, a loose confederation of programmers archived a huge cache of publicly available information from the service before it disappeared indefinitely.

  • The book follows Genly Ai, an envoy from an interplanetary confederation trying to convince the residents of the planet Gethen to join the rest of the galaxy.

  • The Articles of Confederation had required nine of the 13 states to pass most items, and it was a disaster.

  • I saw it in "Quotation", a group show at the Confederation Center of the Arts in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

  • The more daring among them even talk about federation or confederation, possibly including the Kingdom of Jordan.

  • Instead, the two colonies were joined in a confederation, with separate legislatures.

  • More disclosure: Jim Kim and I are part of a loose confederation called “Doctors for Obama.”

  • The suspense with which Louis listened to this perfidious confederation, was almost insufferable.

  • The promise of obedience to God by vow or oath, includes a promise of certain services to each member of the confederation.

  • And how would the general confederation testify to a glorious work of reformation!

  • A committee was appointed to draw up such a plan and, in 1777, it submitted the Articles of Confederation to Congress.

  • By 1785, the Americans began to realize that the Articles of Confederation were too weak to become effective.

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