alliancenoun [ C ]
uk/əˈlaɪ.əns/us/əˈlaɪ.əns/C2 a group of countries, political parties, or people who have agreed to work together because of shared interests or aims:
a military alliance
NATO is sometimes called the Atlantic Alliance.
C2 an agreement to work with someone else to try to achieve the same thing:
The three smaller parties have forged/formed an alliance against the government.
Some of us feel that the union is in alliance with management against us.
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- All the countries have proclaimed their loyalty to the alliance.
- Religious fanatics have formed an unholy alliance with right wing groups.
- A chain can only be as strong as its weakest link, so we must look at the least committed country to see if the alliance will hold.
- All these different political elements have somehow been yoked together to form a new alliance.
- The party is a loose alliance of environmentalists and left-wingers.
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Groups of people
- an
- assemblage
- band
- bee
- bevy
- corps
- crop
- gang
- ginger group
- group
- grouping
- harem
- quarter
- stable
- threesome
- throng
- tribe
- triumvirate
- vintage
- wing
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