alliance

n

1. coalition, entente, union, league, bloc, bund, federation, federacy, confederation, confederacy; partnership, co-partnership, affiliation; industry, enterprise, business, business establishment, commercial enterprise, concern, firm, company, house; corporation, incorporation, conglomerate, trust, syndicate, cartel, consortium, combine, machine, Sl. plunderbund; junction, fusion, combination, merger, merging; association, society, guild; pool, cooperative, cooperation, co-op; council, junta, conclave, assembly, convention, diet; faction, party, splinter group, ring, group, Inf. push, Inf. crew, Inf. gang.

2. marriage, matrimony or holy matrimony, bonds of matrimony, wedlock or holy wedlock, matrimonial union, marriage sacrament, sacrament of matrimony, wedding knot; mixed marriage, interfaith marriage, interracial marriage; intermarriage; kinship, nuptial tie or bind or knot, conjugal tie or bind or knot, connubial tie or bind or knot, marriage relationship, marital affinity, marriage or family connection.

3. pact, compact, treaty, covenant, concordat, contract, formal agreement; settlement, arrangement, understanding, cordial understanding, agreement, gentleman's agreement, deal, bargain, transaction.

4. affinity, affiliation, similarity, similitude, resemblance, correlation, relation, parallel, concurrence, correspondence; equivalence, parity, analogy, homogeneity, homology.