faction
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈfækʃən/
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facción
- The country is splintered into more factions than ever before -
- party factions
- political factions
- rival factions
And this was all about social factions in Great Britain.
- And this was all about social factions in Great Britain.
- And and when things degenerate into just rival factions, then we've got some serious problems.
- And Kabul became the front line of different factions fighting between each other.
- And not just people, but peoples, and in this case factions as well.
- So it paints a broad brush across all the factions rather than distinguish each one.
- It's an assortment of five or six factions, all of whom have different ideologies.
- So what they do is they systematically create factions.
- The, you know, entire faction hates our guts.
- So we'll have both player player creative factions and game creative factions.
- It doesn't do to try to probe what these factions represented too much.
- There was a big faction of like stand wipers, too.
- Trump has factions also in police, FBI.
- And these are all based upon faction, the United Nations World Food Program.
Examples
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There are stories about factions within the intelligence community at war with each other over the UFO issue.
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During his campaign, Garfield had a lot of opposition from the Stalwarts faction of his Republican party.
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What Madison is most afraid of is a single faction, A majority faction.
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Three leaders of a rival faction have been murdered.
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The Girondin faction believe war will unite France.
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Congress was divided into so many different factions that none commanded a majority.
Academic text (2008) -
Three major factions emerged, each vying for power.
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In many of these places, there's so much rivalry, with different factions saying theirs is the man.
Fiction book (1994) -
Lacking a national currency, different factions issued their own bills for use within their fiefdoms.
Academic text (2011) -
After much debate, the committee split into several factions with differing opinions on the new policy.
Synonyms
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1.0
A number of people or things seen as one unit
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3.5
A group of people with the same belief or goal in a larger group
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7.1
A small secret group that works inside a larger organization, often for political aims
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6.1
A small group that splits from a larger religious group because of different beliefs
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8.9
A secret group that plans together to gain power, often in politics
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3.6
A smaller part of a larger group that has its own role or feature
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5.0
A small group that leaves a larger group because its members disagree
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4.7
A small group inside a religion with different beliefs or practices
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7.1
A small group inside a larger clan that shares an ancestor and customs
A small group inside a larger political or social group
A small hidden group that tries to influence leaders by secret actions
A small group that meets in secret to gain power
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
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9.9
A left-wing group in Germany known for violent attacks to reach political aims
A political group that supports the Ukrainian nationalist ideas of Stepan Bandera
- Slur
A group in a party that supports left-wing ideas and is called by others in a negative way
- Literature
A group within a political party that strongly supports Donald Trump and his policies
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Faction comes from the Latin root facere which means 'to do' or 'to make', the same root behind familiar words like fact and factory. So a faction is a small group formed inside a larger one — people who act together and often try to push their own views or gain power.