Noun

• S: (n) federation (an organization formed by merging several groups or parties)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) American Federation of Labor, AFL (a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955)
• S: (n) American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, AFL-CIO (the largest federation of North American labor unions; formed in 1955)
• S: (n) Congress of Industrial Organizations, CIO (a federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) confederation, confederacy, federation (a union of political organizations)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) union (a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations) "the Soviet Union"
• derivationally related form
• W: (v) confederate [Related to: confederation] (form a group or unite) "The groups banded together"
• W: (v) confederate [Related to: confederacy] (form a confederation with; of nations)
• W: (v) federate [Related to: federation] (unite on a federal basis or band together as a league) "The country was federated after the civil war"
• S: (n) federation (the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs)