- A union or association between countries or organisations - Association - Coalition - Confederation - consolidate friendship - consolidated friendship - Formal union
- Alliance - Association - Relationship - Adoption; association or reception as a member in or
of the same family or society. - The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the
assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation. - Connection in the way of descent.
- Artisans’ association - Association - Craft association - Professional union - Society beguiled by drone buzzing off - Society or club - An association of men belonging to the same class, or
engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a
business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the
Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government,
and endowed with special privileges and authority.