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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Coalition \Co'a*li"tion\, noun [LL. coalitio: cf. F. coalition. See {Coalesce}.]
1. The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms. --Bentley.
2. A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests.
A coalition of the puritan and the blackleg. --J. Randolph.
The coalition between the religious and worldly enemies of popery. --Macaulay.
Syn: Alliance; confederation; confederacy; league; combination; conjunction; conspiracy; union.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
coalition
noun
1: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty [syn: {alliance}, {alignment}, {alinement}] [ant: {nonalignment}]
2: the state of being combined into one body [syn: {fusion}]
3: the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts [syn: {coalescence}, {coalescency}, {concretion}, {conglutination}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "coalition": Anschluss, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, anschluss, assemblage, assimilation, association, axis, band, blend, blending, bloc, body, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence, colleagueship, college, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, common market, communist front, composition, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, consumer cooperative, cooperative, cooperative society, copartnership, copartnery, corps, council, credit union, customs union, economic community, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, faction, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, free trade area, freemasonry, front, fusion, gang, grass-roots movement, ground swell, group, grouping, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, junction, junta, league, machine, marriage, meld, melding, mergence, merger, merging, mob, movement, package, package deal, partnership, party, political front, political machine, popular front, ring, society, sodality, solidification, sorority, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, wedding
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