confederacy

1. N-COUNT A confederacy is a union of states or people who are trying to achieve the same thing. 同盟; 聯盟

They've entered this new confederacy because the central government's been unable to control the collapsing economy. 他們已經蓡加了這個新同盟，因爲中央政府已經不能控制搖搖欲墜的經濟了。

2. N-PROPER The 11 southern states that fought against the North in the American Civil War are sometimes referred to as the Confederacy. 美國內戰時的南部邦聯['the' N]