S: (n) combination (an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes))
S: (n) combination in restraint of trade ((law) any monopoly or contract or combination or conspiracy intended to restrain commerce (which are illegal according to antitrust laws of the United States))
S: (n) allies (an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy)
S: (n) bloc, axis (a group of countries in special alliance)
S: (n) Allies (in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers)
S: (n) Central Powers (in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies)
S: (n) Allies (the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945)
S: (n) Axis (in World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations) "the Axis opposed the Allies in World War II"
S: (n) Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)
S: (n) Organization of American States, OAS (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)
S: (n) League of Nations (an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed)
S: (n) community (a group of nations having common interests) "they hoped to join the NATO community"
S: (n) Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)
S: (n) United Nations, UN (an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security)
S: (n) commonwealth (a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another)
S: (n) British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations (an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown)
S: (n) World Trade Organization, WTO (an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade)
S: (n) Northern Alliance, United Front (a multiethnic alliance in Afghanistan who practice a moderate form of Islam and are united in their opposition to the Taliban)