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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | union |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, bloc, brotherhood, cartel, coalition, confederacy, congress, federation, fellowship, fraternity, guild, league, order, organization, partnership, sisterhood, society, sorority, syndicate |
| Main Entry: | alliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendly association, agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, affiliation, affinity, betrothal, bond, coalition, coherence, collaboration, collusion, combination, communion, compact, concord, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, fraternization, friendship, interrelation, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, mutuality, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war |
| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group with common interest or pursuit |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, alliance, band, bunch, circle, clan, clique, club, coalition, combination, combo, company, confederacy, confederation, congress, cooperative, corporation, crew, crowd, family, federation, fellowship, fraternity, gang, guild, hookup, league, mob, order, organization, outfit, partnership, pool, rat pack, ring, society, sodality, sorority, syndicate, tie-in, tie-up, tribe, troops, troupe, union, zoo |
| Main Entry: | coalition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allied group, association |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, alliance, amalgam, amalgamation, anschluss, bloc, coadunation, combination, combine, compact, confederacy, confederation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, faction, federation, fusion, integration, league, melding, mergence, merger, merging, party, ring, unification, union |
| Antonyms: | disassociation |
| Main Entry: | combination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance, association |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, bloc, cabal, cahoots, camarilla, cartel, circle, clique, club, coadunation, coalition, combine, compound, confederacy, confederation, conjunction, connection, consolidation, consortium, conspiracy, coterie, faction, federation, gang, guild, hookup, mafia, melding, mergence, merger, merging, partnership, party, pool, ring, set, syndicate, tie-up, trust, unification, union |
| Antonyms: | dissolution, disunion, separation, severance |
| Main Entry: | confederacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coalition |
| Synonyms: | alliance, anschluss, bond, compact, confederation, conspiracy, covenant, federation, government, league, organization, union |
| Main Entry: | cooperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual effort |
| Synonyms: | aid, alliance, assistance, cahoots, coaction, coadjuvancy, coalition, collaboration, combination, combined effort, communion, company, concert, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confunction, conspiracy, doing business with, esprit de corps, federation, fusion, give-and-take, harmony, help, helpfulness, logrolling, participation, partisanship, partnership, playing ball, reciprocity, responsiveness, service, society, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, teaming, teamwork, unanimity, union, unity |
| Notes: | cooperation is always positive, collaboration is positive except in wartime (working with the enemy), and collusion is always negative (working together in secret for a dishonest purpose) |
| Antonyms: | blockage, delay, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, obstruction, prevention, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | folk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's relations, acquaintances |
| Synonyms: | body politic, clan, community, confederation, culture group, ethnic group, family, general public, group, house, household, inhabitants, kin, kindred, lineage, masses, ménage, nation, nationality, people, population, proletariat, public, race, settlement, society, state, stock, tribe |
| Main Entry: | league |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, federation |
| Synonyms: | alliance, band, bunch, circle, circuit, club, coalition, combination, combine, compact, company, confederacy, confederation, conference, consortium, crew, gang, group, guild, loop, mob, order, organization, outfit, partnership, pool, ring, society, sodality, union, unit |
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