Confederacy

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A union of persons, parties, or states; a league.
  • noun. The persons, parties, or states joined in such a union.
  • noun. The Confederate States of America.
  • noun. A group of people who have united for unlawful practices; a conspiracy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A contract between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or joint action of any kind; a compact, league, or alliance.
  • noun. An aggregation of persons, parties, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
  • noun. In law, a combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act; a conspiracy.
  • noun. Confederated action; coöperation; concurrence.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.
  • noun. The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
  • noun. A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.
  • noun. With the, the Confederate States of America.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. an alliance
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  • noun. a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
  • noun. a union of political organizations
  • noun. a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose