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simultaneously. — Benjamin Franklin;
• (stipulate)- to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of
agreement, ( ); Let
us stipulate, as the first condition, a full pardon for him and his faithful
followers. — Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works;
truce = armistice = cease-fire : parley
• (truce)- a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual
agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice, ( ,
); This truce was agreed upon, and then, at length, after a long
negotiation, terms of peace were concluded. — Margaret of Anjou Makers of
History;
• (armistice)- a temporary cessation of fighting by mutual consent; a truce;
Subsequently an apology was offered for this gross infraction of
the armistice, and the wagons returned and secured their stores. — General
Scott;
• (cease-fire)- suspension of active hostilities; a truce;
• (parley)- a discussion or conference, (
); Previous to the battle there was a brief parley, and the king told
Tostig the best he could do with him. — Comic History of England;
alliance = affiliation = collaboration = coalition = confederation = consortium =
syndicate
• (alliance)- a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to
cooperate for specific purposes, ( , ); This
other alliance was the marriage of Agathocles, the son of Lysimachus, with
Lysandra, — Pyrrhus Makers of History;
• (affiliation)- association in general; relation; connection; friendship;
alliance; Without Him, I cannot be satisfied with affiliation or creed or
performance of good works. — Autobiography of a Yogi;
• (collaboration)- the act of working together; united labor, especially in
literary or scientific work; The idea of the collaboration was a mistake; but it
seemed to me at the moment the best way to get him to do something. —
Oscar Wilde;
• (coalition)- a combination or alliance, esp. a temporary one between
persons, factions, states, etc, (
); If you were reading either of those papers, you would have thought
the coalitionwas actually losing the war. — Who's Looking Out for You;
• (confederation)- a group of confederates, esp. of states more or less
permanently united for common purposes, ( );