Union vs Alliance - What's the difference?
union | alliance | Synonyms |
(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
(uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
(countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
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, title= (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
(countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
(countable) The act or state of marriage.
(uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
(countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.
A large, high-quality pearl.
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(uncountable) The state of being allied.
(countable) The act of allying or uniting.
(countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
(countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
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(with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.
(obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.
Alliance is a synonym of union.
In countable terms the difference between union and alliance
is that union is the act or state of marriage while alliance is any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.In uncountable terms the difference between union and alliance
is that union is the state of being united or joined while alliance is the state of being allied.As a verb alliance is
to connect or unite by alliance; to ally.union
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
- Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, andan union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […].
Synonyms
* junction, coalition, combinationDerived terms
* banjo union * enterprise union * trades union, trade union * union card * unionised, unionized * European Union * Soviet UnionSee also
* intersection * (Webster 1913)Anagrams
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English
(alliance)Alternative forms
* alliaunceNoun
- matrimonial alliances'''; an '''alliance between church and state, or between two countries
- the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel
- the alliance between logic and metaphysics
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