alliance
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- n the state of being allied or confederated
- n a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest
the shifting alliances within a large family - n an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- n a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim
- n the act of forming an alliance or confederation
- Among the Northern Alliance, there were at least twenty dead in the initial attack, when the Taliban overpowered their alliance guards.
- The Western military alliance's raison dtre was to contain Russia.
- If the alliance is not now to drift into irrelevance, or worse, some high-level attention to what its purposes might be in the new world is needed.