coalition

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

   “The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.”

   “At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.”

   “In a quirk of German politics, the governing coalitions are often given names. The previous coalition government, headed by the SPD (red), included the Green Party (green) and Liberal Party (yellow) - together they were known as the “traffic light” coalition.”

2. (countable, rare, uncountable)The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.

   “Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads.”

   “Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs.”

   “This is the incredible moment a juvenile ostrich attempts to outrun a coalition of cheetahs that forms a central part of the latest BBC programme to be presented by Sir David Attenborough.”

name

1. (Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Coalition of the Liberal Party and National Party, the Liberal-National coalition.
2. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Coalition of the Willing (“the coalition of nations operating under United States command against Iraq, in the U.S.-Iraq War (Gulf War II; "Iraq War") and its aftermath”).
3. Any of several series of nations allied against France in the Napoleonic Wars; in the War of the First Coalition, War of the Second Coalition, etc.
4. (Australia, derogatory, mildly, slang)The Coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party, emphasising its pro-coal policies.

   “2017 Giles Parkinson, Big utilities about to pay price of saying no to coal and COALition Renew Economy, 11 September 2017. Accessed 3 June 2019.”

   “2019 David Llewellyn-Smith, Can Albo out-coal the COALition? MacroBusiness, 28 May 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.”