n an organization formed by merging several groups or parties
n a union of political organizations
n the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs
Meanwhile the Tunku was busy shoring up what remains of the federation.
After years of weak central leadership, Yugoslavia's loose federation of six republics and two autonomous provinces seemed about to fall prey to a new plague of nationalism .
But that was before Brunei withdrew from the planned federation in a state of pique, leaving Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo to go it alone.