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noun an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
noun the state of being combined into one body
noun the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
originBorrowed from Middle French coalition, from Medieval Latin coalitiō, coalitiōnem, from Latin coalitus. Compare coalescence.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0