Confederacy (Noun)
Meaning 1
A group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 2
The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 3
A secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The two business partners were accused of forming a confederacy to embezzle funds from their company.
- A group of hackers were found to be in a confederacy to steal sensitive information from government databases.
- The politician was alleged to be part of a confederacy to rig the election in their favor.
- The three friends were discovered to be in a confederacy to cheat on their final exams.
- A group of employees were fired for being in a confederacy to sabotage their company's production line.
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Meaning 4
A union of political organizations.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.