What does COALITION mean?

Definitions for COALITION
ˌkoʊ əˈlɪʃ əncoali·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. alliance, coalition, alignment, alinementnoun

    an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

  2. coalition, fusionnoun

    the state of being combined into one body

  3. coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutinationnoun

    the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

Wiktionary

  1. coalitionnoun

    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.

  2. Etymology: From coalition, from alo.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Coalitionnoun

    Union in one mass or body; conjunction of separate parts in one whole.

    Etymology: from coalesco coalitum, Latin.

    The world’s a mass of heterogeneous consistences, and every part thereof a coalition of distinguishable varieties. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps.

    In the first coalition of a people, their prospect is not great: they provide laws for their present exigence and convenience. Matthew Hale, Common Law of England.

    ’Tis necessary that these squandered atoms should convene and unite into great masses: without such a coalition the chaos must have reigned to all eternity. Richard Bentley.

Wikipedia

  1. Coalition

    The term "coalition" is the denotation for a group formed when two or more people, factions, states, political parties, militaries etc. agree to work together temporarily in a partnership to achieve a common goal. The word coalition connotes a coming together to achieve a goal.

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  1. coalition

    A coalition is an alliance, union, or temporary grouping among distinct individuals, political parties, organizations or nations with a common purpose or goal. This collaboration often happens to address a shared problem, issue, or to consolidate resources and power. It is typically a strategic and cooperative agreement made for mutual benefit.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Coalitionnoun

    the act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms

  2. Coalitionnoun

    a combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests

Wikidata

  1. Coalition

    A coalition is a pact or treaty among individuals or groups, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest, joining forces together for a common cause. This alliance may be temporary or a matter of convenience. A coalition thus differs from a more formal covenant. Possibly described as a joining of 'factions', usually those with overlapping interests rather than opposing.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Coalition

    kō-al-ish′un, n. act of coalescing, or uniting into one body: a union of persons, states, &c., which agree to sink their differences and act in common: alliance.—v.i. Cō′alise, to make an alliance.—n. Coali′tionist, one of a coalition.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. coalition

    An ad hoc arrangement between two or more nations for common action. See also alliance; multinational.

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'COALITION' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3794

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'COALITION' in Nouns Frequency: #1530

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of COALITION in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of COALITION in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of COALITION in a Sentence

  1. Jose Velazquez:

    Today is a day of relief to know it took a multiracial coalition of individuals with different backgrounds and beliefs to move a mountain to challenge the state education apparatus.

  2. Redur Xelil:

    There is fighting which continues around Tel Tamer but the coalition warplanes have targeted the area, the last strikes were a short while ago.

  3. Joseph Dunford:

    We're engaging now with a number of countries to see if we can put together a coalition that would ensure freedom of navigation both in the Straits of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab, and so I think probably over the next couple of weeks we'll identify which nations have the political will to support that initiative and then we'll work directly with the militaries to identify the specific capabilities that'll support that.

  4. Barham Salih:

    Here I reiterate Iraq's call, which we have previously issued at the United Nations General Assembly, for the formation of an international coalition to fight corruption along the lines of the international coalition against ISIS, terrorism can only be eliminated by draining its sources of funding based on corruption money as a political economy of violent.

  5. Adam Kinzinger:

    If you think the Donald Trump thing in the long term is going to be the winning coalition and not somebody like me that's conservative but doesn't offend people, and doesn't go out and attack and say that you owe me everything, and doesn't incite insurrections -- then we'll be a minority party forever.

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