alliance

IPA: ʌɫˈaɪʌns

(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.

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