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Webster 1913 Edition
Coalition
1.
The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts;
as, a
. coalition
of atomsBentley.
2.
A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests.
A
coalition
of the puritan and the blackleg. J. Randolph.
Syn. – Alliance; confederation; confederacy; league; combination; conjunction; conspiracy; union.
Webster 1828 Edition
Coalition
COALITION
, n.1.
Union in a body or mass; a coming together, as of separate bodies or parts, and their union in one body or mass; as, a coalition of atoms or particles.2.
Union of individual persons, parties or states.Definition 2024
coalition
coalition
English
Noun
coalition (plural coalitions)
- A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.
- The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.
- 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.
- (rare) The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.
- 2013 August 7, Joshi Herrmann, "How cricket netted the hipsters", London Evening Standard
- Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads.
- 2014 September 6, Darren Boyle, "Running wild! Mother cheetah has SIX cubs keeping her busy by jumping, hiding and climbing all over her", The Daily Mail
- Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs.
- 2015 June 11, "This is the moment an ostrich attempts to outrun cheetahs in Sir David Attenborough's latest show", Bristol Post
- This is the incredible moment a juvenile ostrich attempts to outrun a coalition of cheetahs that forms a central part of the latest BBC programme to be presented by Sir David Attenborough.
- 2013 August 7, Joshi Herrmann, "How cricket netted the hipsters", London Evening Standard
Derived terms
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Translations
group of organizations
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Etymology
From Late Latin coalitus (“fellowship, communion”).
Noun
coalition f (plural coalitions)