Coalition vs Conclave - What's the difference?
coalition | conclave | Related terms |
A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.
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The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
The group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals.
* (Robert South)
A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Coalition is a related term of conclave.
As nouns the difference between coalition and conclave
is that coalition is a temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage while conclave is conclave.coalition
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.
British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.
Derived terms
* coalition of the willing * coalitional * coalitionary * coalitioner * coalitionism * coalitionist * First Coalition * Second Coalition * Third Coalition * Fourth CoalitionExternal links
* ("coalition" on Wikipedia) ----conclave
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.
- The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London.
