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confederates 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/kənˈfedərət/,
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confederates, plural;
  1. Bring (states or groups of people) into an alliance
    • - Switzerland is a model for the new confederated Europe
Noun
  1. A person one works with, esp. in something secret or illegal; an accomplice
    • - where was his confederate, the girl who had stolen Richard's wallet?
  2. A supporter of the Confederate States of America

  1. (confederacy) conspiracy: a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
  2. (confederacy) conspiracy: a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
  3. (confederate) band together: form a group or unite; "The groups banded together"
  4. (confederate) of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War; "Confederate soldiers"
  5. (confederate) allied: united in a confederacy or league
  6. (confederate) someone who assists in a plot
  7. (confederate) accomplice: a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
  8. Confederates is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally which uses the American Civil War as its main subject matter.
  9. The Confederates were a barbershop quartet that performed in the 1950s and 1960s.
  10. (Confederate (Escape Velocity)) Escape Velocity is a single-player role-playing space trading and combat game series first introduced in 1996 by Ambrosia Software for the Apple Macintosh. ...
  11. (Confederacy) The association or banding together of two or more persons for the purpose of committing an act or furthering an enterprise that is forbidden by law, or that, though lawful in itself, becomes unlawful when made the object of the confederacy. More commonly called a conspiracy. ...
  12. (Confederate) A person who secretly provides information to a fraudulent psychic or mentalist.
  13. (Confederate) An actor who, unbeknownst to research participants, is working on behalf of experimenters to fulfill a part of the experimental design.
  14. (Confederate) Participant who is secretly part of your show
  15. (Confederate) Refers to states during the American Civil War that succeeded from the union in order to preserve their way of life(which included slavery).  Many Southerners today feel resentment towards the North and some still want to succeed for both racial and non-racial reasons.
  16. (confederate) Someone in the service of a researcher who is instructed to behave in a certain way in order to help produce an experimental treatment. (96)
  17. individuals who pose as participants in empirical research, in order to produce responses from real? participants in the study.