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confederacy

noun
🔊/kənˈfedərəsi/
🔊/kənˈfedərəsi/
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  1. [countable] a union of states, groups of people or political parties with the same aim联盟；同盟；联邦
  2. the Confederacy
     [singular]
    (also the Confederate States)
    the eleven southern states of the US that left the United States in 1860–1, starting the American Civil War
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French confederacie, based on Latin confoederare ‘join together in league’, from con- ‘together’ + foederare ‘join in league with’.