Definition of "confederations" []

• Plural form of confederation. (noun)

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• "About 20 years ago, the writer John Naisbitt was dead-on with the prediction that large enterprises are evolving into what he called confederations of entrepreneurs."
• "Platini, the Uefa president, will restore order to the quasi-papal state and probably strengthen Europe's influence at the expense of the more remote from Zurich confederations, which have been used as a power base by Blatter."
• "He studied all the tribal divisions in Iraq, from the overarching confederations to the smallest unit of five generations in one family."