coalitions
- 1Plural of coalition.
Rival coalitions struggled to control the new parliament.
Local charities built broad coalitions to push for housing reform.
Note
The plural belongs to the everyday countable alliance: rival coalitions, broad coalitions of parties or charities. Capitalized, the Coalition is a single proper name, such as Australia's Liberal-National partnership, and it is not pluralized in ordinary use. History offers the one numbered plural. The Napoleonic Wars produced a series of coalitions against France, from the First Coalition onward. A rarer use names a group of cheetahs, and that too takes the plural.
coalitions is a form of coalition
coalition, noun: A temporary alliance of organizations or parties, usually formed to gain a particular advantage. Full entry
- Forms
- coalitioncoalitions plural
- Spelling
- coalition → coalitions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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