Definition of confederacy in English:

confederacy

nounPlural confederacies kənˈfɛd(ə)rəsikənˈfɛd(ə)rəsi

1A league or alliance, especially of confederate states.
the Italian confederacy known as the Lombard League
Example sentencesExamples
- Maybe it is a federation or a confederacy with a system of power division?
- Caught between old allegiances to the empire, on the one hand, and patriot neighbours, on the other, the confederacy splintered.
- He had to abandon his party's policy of reconstruction in the South, handing the old confederacy back to its white state governments.
- His uncle, who had shaped his career, was the foreign intelligence chief for the confederacy, during the Civil War - a man of traitorous inclinations, shall we say?
- Estrella had never heard any of these words before, and she hadn't the slightest idea of what a federation or a confederacy was.
- Regional tensions between chiefs from each of the three traditional confederacies have played a part.
- In other words, a person cannot be domiciled in a federation or confederacy.
- Already they were a confederacy of states with some forms of representative assemblies, however limited their powers, of citizens who wished to be independent of arbitrary external rule.
- This description was appropriate for a man who made his fortune trading with the native Indians in the Mohawk valley and the nations of the Iroquois confederacy.
- The English and the nascent Indian confederacies realized that cooperation would best serve their respective interests.
- Confederation facilitated joint warfare against other nations and confederacies in the region.
- The Wampanoag were members of a widespread confederacy of Algonkian-speaking peoples known as the League of the Delaware.
- The constitution was expected by the hopeful to settle the issue between confederacy and federation.
- The Indonesian Government, and the Indonesian Military, are not monolithic organisations, each is composed of power blocks: more a loose confederacy of power bases controlled by different ruling families.
- It acted as a confederacy of socialist political organisations and operated through a number of ‘co-ordinating bodies’ - some permanent, some ad-hoc.
- ‘For thousands of years before Confederation we were living here, thriving and conducting the business of our nations within our own confederacies and confederations,’ he said.
- They were actually not so much a nation as a confederacy that welcomed new member tribes, even those of a different linguistic and cultural background.
- The town of Misarata, with the support of the powerful Bedouin tribal allies of the Wafallah confederacy, challenged Tripoli's hegemony.
- At any rate, this argument is only partially true since the republic set up by the Iroquois confederacy predates Canadian confederation.
- The co-chair called for a five-minute break so each region could consult and decide who would be the voting delegates for the confederacy and who would not.
Synonyms
federation, confederation, alliance, league, association, coalition, combine, consortium, conglomerate, cooperative, partnership, syndicate, compact, band, group, circle, ring
bloc, axis
society, union, guild, fellowship
rare consociation, sodality
1. 1.1
  another term for Confederate States of America
2. 1.2 A union of people or groups formed for an illicit purpose.
  the Yakuza is a secret confederacy of criminal fraternities
  Example sentencesExamples
  The question then becomes: What was this confederacy of dunces doing to earn its massive paydays?
  The problem for natural individuals, Hobbes wrote, is that ‘the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others.’
  Rapidly evolving technology and the independent decisions of members of the department confederacy assure that enterprise-wide interoperability will not occur soon.
  For this has been the year of my initiation into what I'm discovering only now is an elite club, a secret society, an unofficial confederacy the existence of which I was up till now blithely unaware.
  The wicked are being bound up in bundles, bound up in trusts, in unions, in confederacies.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French confederacie, based on Latin confoederare 'join together in league' (see confederation).

Definition of confederacy in US English:

confederacy

nounkənˈfɛd(ə)rəsikənˈfed(ə)rəsē

1A league or alliance, especially of confederate states.
the Italian confederacy known as the Lombard League
Example sentencesExamples
- The English and the nascent Indian confederacies realized that cooperation would best serve their respective interests.
- Confederation facilitated joint warfare against other nations and confederacies in the region.
- Already they were a confederacy of states with some forms of representative assemblies, however limited their powers, of citizens who wished to be independent of arbitrary external rule.
- ‘For thousands of years before Confederation we were living here, thriving and conducting the business of our nations within our own confederacies and confederations,’ he said.
- He had to abandon his party's policy of reconstruction in the South, handing the old confederacy back to its white state governments.
- Estrella had never heard any of these words before, and she hadn't the slightest idea of what a federation or a confederacy was.
- The Indonesian Government, and the Indonesian Military, are not monolithic organisations, each is composed of power blocks: more a loose confederacy of power bases controlled by different ruling families.
- The town of Misarata, with the support of the powerful Bedouin tribal allies of the Wafallah confederacy, challenged Tripoli's hegemony.
- This description was appropriate for a man who made his fortune trading with the native Indians in the Mohawk valley and the nations of the Iroquois confederacy.
- Caught between old allegiances to the empire, on the one hand, and patriot neighbours, on the other, the confederacy splintered.
- The co-chair called for a five-minute break so each region could consult and decide who would be the voting delegates for the confederacy and who would not.
- Maybe it is a federation or a confederacy with a system of power division?
- The constitution was expected by the hopeful to settle the issue between confederacy and federation.
- They were actually not so much a nation as a confederacy that welcomed new member tribes, even those of a different linguistic and cultural background.
- The Wampanoag were members of a widespread confederacy of Algonkian-speaking peoples known as the League of the Delaware.
- It acted as a confederacy of socialist political organisations and operated through a number of ‘co-ordinating bodies’ - some permanent, some ad-hoc.
- His uncle, who had shaped his career, was the foreign intelligence chief for the confederacy, during the Civil War - a man of traitorous inclinations, shall we say?
- In other words, a person cannot be domiciled in a federation or confederacy.
- Regional tensions between chiefs from each of the three traditional confederacies have played a part.
- At any rate, this argument is only partially true since the republic set up by the Iroquois confederacy predates Canadian confederation.
Synonyms
federation, confederation, alliance, league, association, coalition, combine, consortium, conglomerate, cooperative, partnership, syndicate, compact, band, group, circle, ring
1. 1.1the Confederacy
  another term for Confederate States of America
2. 1.2 An alliance of people or groups formed for an illicit purpose.
  the Yakuza is a secret confederacy of criminal fraternities
  Example sentencesExamples
  Rapidly evolving technology and the independent decisions of members of the department confederacy assure that enterprise-wide interoperability will not occur soon.
  The wicked are being bound up in bundles, bound up in trusts, in unions, in confederacies.
  The question then becomes: What was this confederacy of dunces doing to earn its massive paydays?
  For this has been the year of my initiation into what I'm discovering only now is an elite club, a secret society, an unofficial confederacy the existence of which I was up till now blithely unaware.
  The problem for natural individuals, Hobbes wrote, is that ‘the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others.’

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French confederacie, based on Latin confoederare ‘join together in league’ (see confederation).

单词	confederacy
释义	Definition of confederacy in English: confederacy nounPlural confederacies kənˈfɛd(ə)rəsikənˈfɛd(ə)rəsi 1A league or alliance, especially of confederate states. the Italian confederacy known as the Lombard League Example sentencesExamples Maybe it is a federation or a confederacy with a system of power division? Caught between old allegiances to the empire, on the one hand, and patriot neighbours, on the other, the confederacy splintered. He had to abandon his party's policy of reconstruction in the South, handing the old confederacy back to its white state governments. His uncle, who had shaped his career, was the foreign intelligence chief for the confederacy, during the Civil War - a man of traitorous inclinations, shall we say? Estrella had never heard any of these words before, and she hadn't the slightest idea of what a federation or a confederacy was. Regional tensions between chiefs from each of the three traditional confederacies have played a part. In other words, a person cannot be domiciled in a federation or confederacy. Already they were a confederacy of states with some forms of representative assemblies, however limited their powers, of citizens who wished to be independent of arbitrary external rule. This description was appropriate for a man who made his fortune trading with the native Indians in the Mohawk valley and the nations of the Iroquois confederacy. The English and the nascent Indian confederacies realized that cooperation would best serve their respective interests. Confederation facilitated joint warfare against other nations and confederacies in the region. The Wampanoag were members of a widespread confederacy of Algonkian-speaking peoples known as the League of the Delaware. The constitution was expected by the hopeful to settle the issue between confederacy and federation. The Indonesian Government, and the Indonesian Military, are not monolithic organisations, each is composed of power blocks: more a loose confederacy of power bases controlled by different ruling families. It acted as a confederacy of socialist political organisations and operated through a number of ‘co-ordinating bodies’ - some permanent, some ad-hoc. ‘For thousands of years before Confederation we were living here, thriving and conducting the business of our nations within our own confederacies and confederations,’ he said. They were actually not so much a nation as a confederacy that welcomed new member tribes, even those of a different linguistic and cultural background. The town of Misarata, with the support of the powerful Bedouin tribal allies of the Wafallah confederacy, challenged Tripoli's hegemony. At any rate, this argument is only partially true since the republic set up by the Iroquois confederacy predates Canadian confederation. The co-chair called for a five-minute break so each region could consult and decide who would be the voting delegates for the confederacy and who would not. Synonyms federation, confederation, alliance, league, association, coalition, combine, consortium, conglomerate, cooperative, partnership, syndicate, compact, band, group, circle, ring bloc, axis society, union, guild, fellowship rare consociation, sodality 1.1 another term for Confederate States of America 1.2 A union of people or groups formed for an illicit purpose. the Yakuza is a secret confederacy of criminal fraternities Example sentencesExamples The question then becomes: What was this confederacy of dunces doing to earn its massive paydays? The problem for natural individuals, Hobbes wrote, is that ‘the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others.’ Rapidly evolving technology and the independent decisions of members of the department confederacy assure that enterprise-wide interoperability will not occur soon. For this has been the year of my initiation into what I'm discovering only now is an elite club, a secret society, an unofficial confederacy the existence of which I was up till now blithely unaware. The wicked are being bound up in bundles, bound up in trusts, in unions, in confederacies. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French confederacie, based on Latin confoederare 'join together in league' (see confederation). Definition of confederacy in US English: confederacy nounkənˈfɛd(ə)rəsikənˈfed(ə)rəsē 1A league or alliance, especially of confederate states. the Italian confederacy known as the Lombard League Example sentencesExamples The English and the nascent Indian confederacies realized that cooperation would best serve their respective interests. Confederation facilitated joint warfare against other nations and confederacies in the region. Already they were a confederacy of states with some forms of representative assemblies, however limited their powers, of citizens who wished to be independent of arbitrary external rule. ‘For thousands of years before Confederation we were living here, thriving and conducting the business of our nations within our own confederacies and confederations,’ he said. He had to abandon his party's policy of reconstruction in the South, handing the old confederacy back to its white state governments. Estrella had never heard any of these words before, and she hadn't the slightest idea of what a federation or a confederacy was. The Indonesian Government, and the Indonesian Military, are not monolithic organisations, each is composed of power blocks: more a loose confederacy of power bases controlled by different ruling families. The town of Misarata, with the support of the powerful Bedouin tribal allies of the Wafallah confederacy, challenged Tripoli's hegemony. This description was appropriate for a man who made his fortune trading with the native Indians in the Mohawk valley and the nations of the Iroquois confederacy. Caught between old allegiances to the empire, on the one hand, and patriot neighbours, on the other, the confederacy splintered. The co-chair called for a five-minute break so each region could consult and decide who would be the voting delegates for the confederacy and who would not. Maybe it is a federation or a confederacy with a system of power division? The constitution was expected by the hopeful to settle the issue between confederacy and federation. They were actually not so much a nation as a confederacy that welcomed new member tribes, even those of a different linguistic and cultural background. The Wampanoag were members of a widespread confederacy of Algonkian-speaking peoples known as the League of the Delaware. It acted as a confederacy of socialist political organisations and operated through a number of ‘co-ordinating bodies’ - some permanent, some ad-hoc. His uncle, who had shaped his career, was the foreign intelligence chief for the confederacy, during the Civil War - a man of traitorous inclinations, shall we say? In other words, a person cannot be domiciled in a federation or confederacy. Regional tensions between chiefs from each of the three traditional confederacies have played a part. At any rate, this argument is only partially true since the republic set up by the Iroquois confederacy predates Canadian confederation. Synonyms federation, confederation, alliance, league, association, coalition, combine, consortium, conglomerate, cooperative, partnership, syndicate, compact, band, group, circle, ring 1.1the Confederacy another term for Confederate States of America 1.2 An alliance of people or groups formed for an illicit purpose. the Yakuza is a secret confederacy of criminal fraternities Example sentencesExamples Rapidly evolving technology and the independent decisions of members of the department confederacy assure that enterprise-wide interoperability will not occur soon. The wicked are being bound up in bundles, bound up in trusts, in unions, in confederacies. The question then becomes: What was this confederacy of dunces doing to earn its massive paydays? For this has been the year of my initiation into what I'm discovering only now is an elite club, a secret society, an unofficial confederacy the existence of which I was up till now blithely unaware. The problem for natural individuals, Hobbes wrote, is that ‘the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others.’ Origin Late Middle English: from Old French confederacie, based on Latin confoederare ‘join together in league’ (see confederation).
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