From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Confederation \Con*fed'er*a"tion\, noun [L. confoederatio: cf. F. conf['e]d['e]ration.]
1. The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states.
The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves. --Bacon.
This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England. --Palfrey.
2. The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy.
{Articles of confederation}. See under {Article}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the state of being allied or confederated [syn: {alliance}]
2: a union of political organizations [syn: {confederacy}, {federation}]
3: the act of forming an alliance or confederation [syn: {alliance}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "confederation": 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, coalition, colleagueship, college, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, common market, composition, comradeship, confederacy, 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, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, free trade area, freemasonry, fusion, gang, group, grouping, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, junction, junta, league, machine, marriage, meld, melding, merger, mob, package, package deal, partnership, political machine, ring, society, sodality, solidification, sorority, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, wedding
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