0 a group of countries, political parties, or people who have agreed to work together because of shared interests or aims:
a military alliance
NATO is sometimes called the Atlantic Alliance.
The three smaller parties have forged/formed an alliance against the government.
Some of us feel that the union is in alliance with management against us.
1 a group of countries, political parties, or people who work together because of shared interests or aims, or the act of forming such a group:
2 an agreement to work with another person, organization, etc. to try to achieve the same thing:
forge/form/enter into an alliance with sb/sth The company will forge alliances with other car makers similar to joint manufacturing agreements already established in Europe.
alliance between sb (and sb) Many details of the alliance between the two companies have been left unclear.
3 a group of countries, companies, organizations, etc. who have agreed to work together because of shared interests:
4 working together with another person, organization, etc.:
All the countries have proclaimed their loyalty to the alliance.
Religious fanatics have formed an unholy alliance with right wing groups.
A chain can only be as strong as its weakest link, so we must look at the least committed country to see if the alliance will hold.
All these different political elements have somehow been yoked together to form a new alliance.
The party is a loose alliance of environmentalists and left-wingers.
About 60 other parties also joined the electoral contest, both within and outside the major contending alliances.
But elsewhere in his paper he argues that landscape mediates nature and culture, it is a 'synthesis or alliance'.
Landscape is nature and culture at the same time, it is their mediation, synthesis or alliance.
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