'Federation' definitions:
Definition of 'federation'
(from WordNet)
noun
An organization formed by merging several groups or parties
noun
A union of political organizations [syn: confederation, confederacy, federation]
noun
The act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs
Definition of 'Federation'
From: GCIDE
- Federation \Fed`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. f['e]d['e]ration.]
- 1. The act of uniting in a league; confederation. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'federation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute monarchy,
- addition,
- affiliation,
- agglomeration,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alignment,
- alliance,
- amalgamation,
- Anschluss,
- anschluss,
- aristocracy,
- assemblage,
- assimilation,
- association,
- autarchy,
- autocracy,
- autonomy,
- axis,
- band,
- blend,
- blending,
- bloc,
- body,
- Bund,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- cartel,
- centralization,
- coadunation,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- coalition government,
- colleagueship,
- college,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- colonialism,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- common market,
- commonwealth,
- composition,
- comradeship,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confraternity,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- consumer cooperative,
- cooperative,
- cooperative society,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- corps,
- council,
- credit union,
- customs union,
- democracy,
- dictatorship,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- economic community,
- ecumenism,
- embodiment,
- encompassment,
- enosis,
- federal government,
- federalization,
- fellowship,
- feudal system,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- free trade area,
- freemasonry,
- fusion,
- gang,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- group,
- grouping,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- hookup,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- junction,
- junta,
- league,
- limited monarchy,
- machine,
- marriage,
- martial law,
- meld,
- melding,
- merger,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- neocolonialism,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- package,
- package deal,
- pantisocracy,
- partnership,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- police state,
- political machine,
- pure democracy,
- regency,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- ring,
- Rochdale cooperative,
- self-determination,
- self-government,
- social democracy,
- society,
- sodality,
- solidification,
- sorority,
- stratocracy,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- technocracy,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- unification,
- union,
- wedding,
- welfare state
Words containing 'Federation'
- Federal,
- Federalism,
- Federalized,
- Federalizing,
- Federate,
- Federative,
- federalization,
- federalize,
- federally,
- federated,
- Federal Congress,
- Federal Dam,
- Federal Heights,
- Federal Way,
- Federation squirrel,
- The Federal Congress,
- federal agency,
- federal agent,
- federal court,
- federal deficit,
- federal department,
- federal district,
- federal government,
- federal judiciary,
- federal office,
- federal official,
- federal party,
- federal reserve,
- federal soldier,
- federation of tribes,
- russian federation,
- Federal Dam, MN,
- Federal Heights, CO,
- Federal Way, WA,
- american federation of labor,
- capital of the russian federation,
- department of the federal government,
- federal aviation agency,
- federal bureau of investigation,
- federal bureau of prisons,
- federal communications commission,
- federal housing administration,
- federal protective service,
- federal republic of germany,
- federal republic of nigeria,
- federal republic of yugoslavia,
- federal reserve bank,
- federal reserve board,
- federal reserve note,
- federal reserve system,
- federal savings bank,
- federal security bureau,
- federal security service,
- federal tax lien,
- federal trade commission,
- federated states of micronesia,
- federative republic of brazil,
- make a federal case,
- Federal National Mortgage Association,
- federal democratic republic of ethiopia,
- federal deposit insurance corporation,
- federal emergency management agency,
- federal islamic republic of the comoros,
- federal job safety law,
- federation of saint kitts and nevis,
- federal home loan bank system,
- federal home loan mortgage corporation,
- federal law enforcement training center,
- russian soviet federated socialist republic,
- american federation of labor and congress of industrial organizations