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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty;
[syn: alliance, coalition, alignment, alinement]

2. the state of being combined into one body;
[syn: coalition, fusion]

3. the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts;
[syn: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Coalition \Co`a*li"tion\, n. [LL. coalitio: cf. F. coalition.
   See Coalesce.]
   1. The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of
      separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms.
      --Bentley.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons,
      parties, or states, having different interests.
      [1913 Webster]

            A coalition of the puritan and the blackleg. --J.
                                                  Randolph.
      [1913 Webster]

            The coalition between the religious and worldly
            enemies of popery.                    --Macaulay.

   Syn: Alliance; confederation; confederacy; league;
        combination; conjunction; conspiracy; union.
        [1913 Webster]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

114 Moby Thesaurus words for "coalition":
   Anschluss, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, addition, affiliation,
   agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance,
   amalgamation, anschluss, assemblage, assimilation, association,
   axis, band, blend, blending, bloc, body, cabal, cahoots, cartel,
   centralization, coadunation, coalescence, colleagueship, college,
   collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo,
   common market, communist front, composition, comradeship,
   confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries,
   conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation,
   conspiracy, consumer cooperative, cooperative, cooperative society,
   copartnership, copartnery, corps, council, credit union,
   customs union, economic community, ecumenism, embodiment,
   encompassment, enosis, faction, federalization, federation,
   fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization,
   free trade area, freemasonry, front, fusion, gang,
   grass-roots movement, ground swell, group, grouping, hookup,
   inclusion, incorporation, integration, junction, junta, league,
   machine, marriage, meld, melding, mergence, merger, merging, mob,
   movement, package, package deal, partnership, party,
   political front, political machine, popular front, ring, society,
   sodality, solidification, sorority, syncretism, syndication,
   syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union,
   wedding