Definition of Alliance

Allegiance

ALLIANCE noun

	In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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Regular definition:

ALLIANCE:
??la??ns n. 1 a union or agreement to cooperate, esp. of States by treaty or families by marriage. b the parties involved. 2 (Alliance) a political party formed by the allying of separate parties. 3 a relationship resulting from an affinity in nature or qualities etc. (the old alliance between logic and metaphysics). 4 Bot. a group of allied families. [ME f. OF aliance (as ALLY(1))]

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