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  2. a group of countries, organizations, or people who have joined together for economic or political reasons: [ C ] a union confederation. politics & government. Cdn Confederation is the joining of regions that had been British to create the independent country of Canada.

  3. Definition of confederation noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  4. confederation /kənˌfɛdə ˈ reɪʃən/ noun. plural confederations. Britannica Dictionary definition of CONFEDERATION. [count] : a group of people, countries, organizations, etc., that are joined together in some activity or effort. a loose confederation [= coalition] of businesses.

  5. noun. the act of confederating. the state of being confederated. a league or alliance. a group of confederates, especially of states more or less permanently united for common purposes. the Confederation, the union of the 13 original U.S. states under the Articles of Confederation 1781–89.

  6. A confederation is a group of countries that, by treaty, have given some of their powers to a central government. They do this in order to coordinate their actions in a number of areas. This is like a federation, but without the association being a new country.

  7. A confederation (or confederacy) is a voluntary alliance of sovereign, independent states established to manage matters of common concern to the member states, such as defense.

  8. The Articles of Confederation. Full text of the Articles of Confederation. To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ...

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