Usually means: Union of sovereign groups, cooperation.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word confederation:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. confederation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. confederation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confederation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confederation, the Confederation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confederation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confederation, confederation: Wordnik
  7. confederation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Confederation, confederation: Wiktionary
  9. confederation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confederation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confederation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. confederation, the confederation: Dictionary.com
  13. confederation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. ConFederation, Confederation (Canada), Confederation (Poland), Confederation (disambiguation), Confederation (political alliance), Confederation (political party), Confederation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Confederation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. confederation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. confederation: Rhymezone
  18. Confederation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. confederation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. confederation: Free Dictionary
  21. confederation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. confederation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  4. confederation: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confederation: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
noun:  The act of forming an alliance.
noun:  In Canada, the federal union of provinces and territories which formed Canada, beginning with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec, and later including all the others.
noun:  In Canada, the date of Confederation; 1 July 1867.
noun:  In Newfoundland, the political union of Newfoundland with Canada.
noun:  In Newfoundland, the date of Confederation; 31 March 1949.

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