ALLIANCE

Alliance

An alliance is a pact, coalition or friendship between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests. It is a Political agreement between countries to support each other in disputes with other countries.

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alliance

Noun

  1. The state of being allied.
    matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state, or between two countries
  2. The act of allying or uniting.
  3. A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
  4. Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
  5. The persons or parties allied.

Verb

  1. To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.


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