consociation

consociation
noun
  1. a group or association of a distinctive type, in particular
    联合；协会；结合，结伴，尤指
    ■a political system formed by the cooperation of different, especially antagonistic, social groups on the basis of shared power
    （敌对社会团体间的）政治联盟
    ■(Ecology)a small climax community or division of a plant association having a characteristic dominant species
    (生态)单优种群落，单优种群丛
    ■(Zoology)a group of animals of the same species which interact more or less equally with each other
    (动)小社会群
  2. [mass noun](dated)close association or fellowship
    (旧)联盟；合伙
派生
consociational
adjective
consociationalism
noun
语源
  1. late 16th cent. (in the sense 'associating, combination'): from Latin consociatio(n-), from the verb consociare, from con- 'together' + sociare 'to associate' (from socius 'fellow')
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