alliance
IPA: ʌɫˈaɪʌns
noun
- (uncountable) The state of being allied.
- (countable) The act of allying or uniting.
- (countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
- (countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
- (with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.
- (India) Marriage.
- A former unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States, now incorporated into the city of Arcata.
- An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Box Butte County, Nebraska, United States.
- A town in Pamlico County, North Carolina, United States.
- A city situated mostly in Stark County, Ohio, United States.
- A master planned community in Denton County and Tarrant County, Texas, United States.
- A village in central Alberta, Canada.
- A town in Suriname, on the banks of the Suriname River.
- (UK politics, historical) The alliance in the 1980s between the SDP and the Liberal Party, precursor of the Liberal Democrats.
- (Northern Ireland, politics) Ellipsis of Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
verb
- (obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.
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Examples of "alliance" in Sentences
- The alliance would not outlast the war.
- The marriage alliance and the consequences.
- The Blues are firmly opposed to the alliance.
- The alliance was consummated in the fifth book.
- The Alliance government surrenders unconditionally.
- The classifieds advertise for the National Alliance.
- He is the former spokesman of the Northern Alliance.
- The political alliance of the triumvirate was crumbling.
- It focuses on the importance of the therapeutic alliance.
- It is the force of the rally and the alliance for democracy.
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