Confederacy as a noun: - 1
confederacy - 2
- 3
- 4
confederacy
noun
1 Confederacy
2 confederacy
A union of political organizations.
synonyms: confederation, federation.
Roget 712:
party,
faction,
side,
denomination,
communion,
set,
crew,
band.
horde,
posse,
phalanx;
family,
clan,
etc.
166;
team;
tong.
council
etc.
696.
community,
body,
fellowship,
sodality,
solidarity;
confraternity;
familistere†,
familistery†;
brotherhood,
sisterhood.
knot,
gang,
clique,
ring,
circle,
group,
crowd,
in-crowd;
coterie,
club,
casino†;
machine;
Tammany,
Tammany Hall [U.S.].
corporation,
corporate body,
guild;
establishment,
company;
copartnership†,
partnership;
firm,
house;
joint concern,
joint-stock company;
cahoot,
combine [U.S.],
trust.
society,
association;
institute,
institution;
union;
trades union;
league,
syndicate,
alliance,
Verein [G.],
Bund [G.],
Zollverein [G.],
combination;
Turnverein [G.];
league offensive and defensive,
alliance offensive and defensive;
coalition;
federation;
confederation,
confederacy;
junto,
cabal,
camarilla†,
camorra†,
brigue†;
freemasonry;
party spirit
etc.
(cooperation)
709.
Confederates,
Conservatives,
Democrats,
Federalists,
Federals,
Freemason,
Knight Templar;
Kuklux,
Kuklux Klan,
KKK;
Liberals,
Luddites,
Republicans,
Socialists,
Tories,
Whigs
&c..
staff;
dramatis personae [Lat.].
... show more
Dutch: alliantie, bond, bondgenootschap, bondsstaat, confederatie, entente, statenbond, unie
Polish: konfederacja
3 confederacy
A group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose.
synonym: conspiracy.
Polish: spisek, sprzysiężenie
4 confederacy
A secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act.
synonym: conspiracy.
Dutch: complot, samenzwering
Moby thesaurus: Anschluss, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, anschluss, artifice, assemblage, assimilation, association, axis, band, blend, blending, bloc, body, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, colleagueship, college, collegialism, collegiality, collusion, combination, combine, combo, common market, complicity, complot, composition, comradeship, confederation, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connivance, consolidation, conspiracy, consumer cooperative, contrivance, contriving, cooperative, cooperative society, copartnership, copartnery, corps, council, counterplot, covin, credit union, customs union, deep-laid plot, economic community, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, engineering, enosis, federalization, federation, fellowship, finagling, finesse, frame-up, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, free trade area, freemasonry, fusion, game, gang, group, grouping, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intrigue, junction, junta, league, little game, machination, machine, maneuvering, manipulation, marriage, meld, melding, merger, mob, package, package deal, partnership, plot, plotting, political machine, rigging, ring, scheme, schemery, scheming, society, sodality, solidification, sorority, stratagem, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, trick, underplot, unification, union, web of intrigue, wedding, wire-pulling ... show more.
debug info: 0.0426