[ぜったいあんていたすう, zettaianteitasuu] (n) overwhelming majority (number of parliamentary seats required in order for the ruling coalition to chair all standing committees and pass bills without the support of other parties) [Add to Longdo]
[やごうせいけん, yagouseiken] (n) administration established through an unprincipled political coalition; government of convenience; cabinet created through an unholy alliance [Add to Longdo]
[ゆうしれんごう, yuushirengou] (n) Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Coalition \Co`a*li"tion\, n. [LL. coalitio: cf. F. coalition.
See {Coalesce}.]
1. The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of
separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms.
--Bentley.
[1913 Webster]
2. A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons,
parties, or states, having different interests.
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A coalition of the puritan and the blackleg. --J.
Randolph.
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The coalition between the religious and worldly
enemies of popery. --Macaulay.
Syn: Alliance; confederation; confederacy; league;
combination; conjunction; conspiracy; union.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coalition
n 1: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact
or treaty [syn: {alliance}, {coalition}, {alignment},
{alinement}] [ant: {nonalignment}, {nonalinement}]
2: the state of being combined into one body [syn: {coalition},
{fusion}]
3: the union of diverse things into one body or form or group;
the growing together of parts [syn: {coalescence},
{coalescency}, {coalition}, {concretion}, {conglutination}]
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