noun🔗Share联盟，同盟。 An alliance."The small businesses formed confederacies to compete with the large corporations. "这些小企业组成了联盟，以便与大型公司竞争。politicsgovernmentnationhistoryorganizationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share邦联，联盟。 A state where the sovereign constituent units delegate their authority to the centre. As opposed to a federation, where the central and regional governments are each equal and sovereign in their own sphere.""Historically, some groups of states have formed confederacies to cooperate on defense, with each state retaining its individual power and independence in most other matters." "历史上，一些州曾经组成邦联，在国防方面进行合作，每个州在其他大多数事务上仍然保留各自的权力和独立性。politicsgovernmentstatenationorganizationhistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share部落联盟，部落邦联 Specifically, an instance of a decentralized governing structure among the indigenous peoples of North America."The Blackfoot, Iroquois, and Sioux peoples all were governed as confederacies. There were also multi-ethnic confederacies, such as the Iron Confederacy made up of the Plains Cree, Assiniboine, Stoney, and Saulteaux."布莱克富特人、易洛魁人和苏族人都以部落联盟的形式进行治理。此外，还有一些多民族部落联盟，比如由平原克里人、阿西尼博因人、斯托尼人和索托人组成的铁联盟。governmenthistorypoliticsnationorganizationgroupChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
