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confederacy - 15 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | confederacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coalition |
| Synonyms: | alliance, bond, compact, conspiracy, covenant, federation, government, league, organization, union, anschluss, confederation |
| 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, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, friendship, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union, confederation, fraternization, interrelation, mutuality |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, discord, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war, disunion |
| Main Entry: | brotherhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, alliance, clan, clique, community, confederacy, coterie, fellowship, fraternity, guild, kinship, league, society, union, comradeship |
| Antonyms: | sisterhood |
| Main Entry: | coalition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allied group, association |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, alliance, amalgam, bloc, combination, combine, compact, confederacy, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, faction, federation, fusion, integration, league, merger, party, ring, unification, union, amalgamation, anschluss, coadunation, confederation, melding, mergence, merging |
| Antonyms: | disassociation |
| Main Entry: | complicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conspiracy |
| Synonyms: | agreement, collaboration, collusion, concurrence, confederacy, engineering, guilt, implication, intrigue, involvement, machination, manipulation, partnership, abetment, complot, connivance, guiltiness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, innocence, refusal, noninvolvement |
| Main Entry: | conspiracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collusion in plan |
| Synonyms: | cabal, confederacy, disloyalty, fix, frame*, game, intrigue, league, machination, plot, practice, scheme, sedition, treachery, treason, trick, trickery, complot, connivance, countermine, counterplot, covin, hookup, little game, perfidy, put-up job, treacherousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cooperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual effort |
| Synonyms: | aid, alliance, assistance, cahoots*, coalition, collaboration, combination, communion, company, concert, concurrence, confederacy, conspiracy, esprit de corps, federation, fusion, give-and-take, harmony, help, helpfulness, participation, partnership, reciprocity, service, society, synergy, teamwork, union, unity, coaction, coadjuvancy, combined effort, confederation, confunction, doing business with, logrolling, partisanship, playing ball, responsiveness, symbiosis, synergism, teaming, unanimity |
| 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: | delay, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, obstruction, prevention, stoppage, blockage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | federation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | partnership, organization |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, bunch, coalition, combination, confederacy, crew, crowd, entente, family, gang, league, mob, outfit, pool, ring, syndicate, tribe, union, amalgamation, federacy, syndication |
| Main Entry: | teamwork |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collaboration, cooperation |
| Synonyms: | alliance, assistance, coalition, confederacy, esprit de corps, federation, harmony, help, partnership, synergy, union, unity, combined effort, confederation, doing business with, joint effort, partisanship, pulling together, symbiosis, synergism, team effort, teaming, working together |
| 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, company, confederacy, congress, cooperative, corporation, crew, crowd, family, federation, fellowship, fraternity, gang, guild, league, mob, order, organization, outfit, partnership, pool, ring, society, sodality, sorority, syndicate, tribe, troupe, union, zoo, combo, confederation, hookup, rat pack, tie-in, tie-up, troops |
| Main Entry: | faction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group sharing a belief or cause |
| Synonyms: | band, bloc, bunch, cabal, camp, caucus, cell, circle, clan, clique, club, coalition, combination, combine, concern, conclave, confederacy, conspiracy, contingent, coterie, crew, crowd, design, division, entente, gang, guild, intrigue, junta, knot, lobby, machine, minority, mob, network, offshoot, outfit, partnership, party, pressure group, ring, schism, sect, section, sector, set, side, splinter group, team, unit, wing, combo, insiders |
| Antonyms: | entirety, total, whole |
| Main Entry: | league |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, federation |
| Synonyms: | alliance, band, bunch, circle, circuit, club, coalition, combination, combine, compact, company, confederacy, conference, crew, gang, group, guild, loop, mob, order, organization, outfit, partnership, pool, ring, society, sodality, union, unit, confederation, consortium |
| Main Entry: | combination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance, association |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, bloc, cabal, cahoots, cartel, circle, clique, club, coalition, combine, compound, confederacy, conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, coterie, faction, federation, gang, guild, mafia, merger, partnership, party, pool, ring, set, syndicate, trust, unification, union, camarilla, coadunation, confederation, consortium, hookup, melding, mergence, merging, tie-up* |
| Antonyms: | dissolution, separation, disunion, severance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | union |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group with shared interest, cause |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, brotherhood, club, coalition, confederacy, congress, federation, guild, labor union, league, local, order, sisterhood, society, sodality, syndicate, trade union, confederation, employees |
| Antonyms: | management |
| Main Entry: | party |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group supporting certain beliefs |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, bloc, body, cabal, clique, coalition, combination, combine, confederacy, coterie, electorate, faction, junta, league, ring, sect, set, side, union, grouping |
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