Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One, such as a nation, that assists another or others in waging war, usually without entering a formal alliance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Coöperating (with another or others) in carrying on war.
- noun A nation, state, or individual that cooperates with another in carrying on war.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Carrying on war in conjunction with another power.
- noun A nation or state that carries on war in connection with another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who wages war on the same side; a
military ally .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus, out of our five Warsaw Pact allies, we have one probable cobelligerent, two possibles, and two unlikelies.
Archive 2009-02-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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Thus, out of our five Warsaw Pact allies, we have one probable cobelligerent, two possibles, and two unlikelies.
DBTL 16: Of Course You Know This Means War Johnny Pez 2009
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He had to listen with great attention, Algarve being Zuwayza's cobelligerent against King Swemmel of Unkerlant and much the bigger power of the two.
Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002
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As foreign minister of a kingdom with a large, unfriendly neighbor and an arrogant cobelligerent, Hajjaj didn't see the advisability of counting on much of anything.
Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002
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The U.S. completed the draft of a peace treaty with Japan and communicated it to the 14 cobelligerent powers, including the Soviet Union.
1951, Jan. 29 2001
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Other assertions about Mr. Awlaki included that he was a leader of the group, which had become a "cobelligerent" with Al Qaeda, and he was pushing it to focus on trying to attack the United States again.
NYT > Home Page By CHARLIE SAVAGE 2011
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