Usually means: Forming a supportive partnership or coalition.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. allying: Merriam-Webster
  2. allying: Collins English Dictionary
  3. allying: Vocabulary.com
  4. Allying, allying: Wordnik
  5. allying: Wiktionary
  6. Allying, allying: Dictionary.com
  7. allying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Allying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Allying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. allying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. allying: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. allying: FreeDictionary.org

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  1. allying: Legal dictionary

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  1. allying: Encyclopedia

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  1. allying: Idioms

(Note: See ally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ally)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.
verb:  Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.
verb:  (reflexive) To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else.
verb:  (intransitive) Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.
noun:  A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.
noun:  A person who, or organization which, supports a demographic group subject to discrimination and/or misrepresentation but is not a member of the group; specifically (LGBTQ), a person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it.
noun:  A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.
noun:  Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.
noun:  (taxonomy) An organism which is related to another organism through common evolutionary origin; specifically, a species which is closely related to another species, usually within the same family.
noun:  (figuratively) A person, group, concept, etc., which is associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary; a supporter.
noun:  (historical or obsolete) A kinsman or kinswoman; a relative.
noun:  One's relatives; kin, kindred, relations; also, relationship through descent or marriage; kinship.
noun:  People, groups, states, etc., which are associated or united with each other for a common purpose; confederates; also, the state of being allied; alliance, confederation.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given names Alice, Alison, Alexandra, or other names beginning with Al-[[]], from the Germanic languages or Ancient Greek.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given names Alfred, Albert, Alan, Alexander, or other names beginning with Al-[[]], from the Germanic languages, the Celtic languages, or Ancient Greek.
noun:  Alternative spelling of alley (“a glass marble or taw”) [A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.]
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