coalition

See also: Coalition and coälition

English

Alternative forms

• coälition (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French coalition, from Medieval Latin coalitiō, coalitiōnem, from Latin coalitus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊ.əˈlɪʃ.ən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊ.əˈlɪʃ.ən/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

coalition (countable and uncountable, plural coalitions)

1. A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

   The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.

   • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2013:

     At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.

2. (rare) The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.
   • 2013 August 7, Joshi Herrmann, “How cricket netted the hipsters”, in London Evening Standard:

     Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads.

   • 2014 September 6, Darren Boyle, “Running wild! Mother cheetah has SIX cubs keeping her busy by jumping, hiding and climbing all over her”, in The Daily Mail:

     Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs.

   • 2015 June 11, “This is the moment an ostrich attempts to outrun cheetahs in Sir David Attenborough's latest show”, in Bristol Post:

     This is the incredible moment a juvenile ostrich attempts to outrun a coalition of cheetahs that forms a central part of the latest BBC programme to be presented by Sir David Attenborough.

Derived terms

• anticoalition
• Coalie
• coalitional
• coalitionary
• coalition builder
• coalitioner
• coalition government
• coalitionism
• coalitionist
• coalition logic
• coalition of the willing
• coalitionology
• countercoalition
• First Coalition
• Fourth Coalition
• grand coalition
• intercoalition
• intracoalition
• Jamaica coalition
• noncoalition
• precoalition
• rainbow coalition
• Second Coalition
• subcoalition
• supercoalition
• Third Coalition

 

Translations

group of organizations

• Albanian: koalicion (sq) m
• Arabic: تَحَالُف m (taḥāluf), اِئْتِلَاف m (iʔtilāf)
• Armenian: կոալիցիա (hy) (koalicʻia), դաշնակցություն (hy) (dašnakcʻutʻyun)
• Asturian: coalición f
• Azerbaijani: koalisiya
• Belarusian: каалі́цыя f (kaalícyja)
• Bengali: জোট (bn) (jōṭ)
• Bulgarian: коали́ция (bg) f (koalícija)
• Burmese: ညွန့်ပေါင်း (nywan.paung:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聯合／联合 (zh) (liánhé)

• Czech: koalice (cs) f
• Danish: koalition c
• Dutch: coalitie (nl) f
• Estonian: koalitsioon (et)
• Faroese: samgonga f
• Finnish: liittouma (fi), liittokunta (fi), koalitio (fi)
• French: coalition (fr) f
• Galician: coalición (gl) f
• Georgian: კოალიცია (ḳoalicia)
• German: Koalition (de) f
• Greek: συνασπισμός (el) m (synaspismós)
• Hebrew: קוֹאָלִיצְיָה (he) f (ko'alítsya)
• Hindi: गठबंधन (hi) m (gaṭhbandhan)
• Hungarian: koalíció (hu)
• Icelandic: bandalag n
• Indonesian: koalisi (id)
• Irish: comhghuaillíocht f
• Italian: blocco (it) m, coalizione (it) f
• Japanese: 連立 (ja) (れんりつ, renritsu)
• Kazakh: коалиция (koalisiä)
• Khmer: សហពលកម្ម (saʼhaʼpŭəllĕəʼkam)
• Korean: 제휴(提携) (ko) (jehyu), 연립(聯立) (ko) (yeollip), 련립(聯立) (ryeollip) (North Korea), 연합(聯合) (ko) (yeonhap), 련합(聯合) (ko) (ryeonhap) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: коалиция (koalitsiya)
• Latin: societās (la) f
• Latvian: koalīcija f
• Lithuanian: koalicija (lt) f
• Macedonian: коалиција f (koalicija)
• Malay: gabungan (ms)
• Maori: haumi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koalisjon m

  Nynorsk: koalisjon m

• Occitan: coalicion f
• Pashto: ائتلاف (ps) m (etelãf)
• Persian: ائتلاف (fa) (e'telâf)
• Polish: koalicja (pl) f
• Portuguese: coalizão (pt), coligação (pt) f
• Romanian: coaliție (ro) f
• Russian: коали́ция (ru) f (koalícija)
• Scottish Gaelic: aonachadh m, co-bhanntachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коали́ција f

  Roman: koalícija (sh) f

• Slovak: koalícia f
• Slovene: koalicija f
• Spanish: coalición (es) f
• Swedish: koalition (sv) c
• Tagalog: koalisyon
• Tajik: эътилоф (eʾtilof)
• Thai: พันธมิตร (th) (pan-tá-mít)
• Turkish: koalisyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: коалі́ція f (koalícija)
• Uzbek: koalitsiya (uz), ittifoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: liên hiệp (vi)

Anagrams

• coitional

French

Alternative forms

• coälition (rare)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin coalitiōnem, from Latin coalitus (“fellowship, communion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

coalition f (plural coalitions)

1. coalition

Derived terms

• gouvernement de coalition

Descendants

• → Polish: koalicja
• → Romanian: coaliție
• → Turkish: koalisyon

Further reading

• “coalition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.