Thesaurus results for CONFEDERACY

confederacy

noun

kən-ˈfe-d(ə-)rə-sē

as in union

an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection a confederacy of several small nations who had promised to come to one another's aid if any were attacked

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Recent Examples of confederacy Long before settlers came to the Americas, there was a confederacy and governance system between three tribes: the Ottawa, the Ojibwe and the Potawatomi. —

J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025 The confederacy of tribes was pressured into ceding lands to the state of New York, and further displaced by ensuing frontier settlement. —

Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025 The clouds are as much a character in Murphy’s work as the cowboys, though the former are unchanged since the Oceti Sakowin first formed their confederacy. —

Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025 In the sixteenth century, the nomadic, reindeer-herding Sámi people of what’s now northern Sweden and Finland and the Shawnee of the Ohio Valley in North America, who lived in farming villages organized as a confederacy, didn’t necessarily have much in common. —

Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for confederacy

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Noun

The state employee unions could turn to binding arbitration, and the current fiscal conditions would be advantageous to labor in any arbitration.

— Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2026
Huerta and Chavez co-founded the United Farm Workers union in the ’60s.

— Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026