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Faction

Faction Meaning & Definition
Faction Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Faction?

[n] a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue
[n] a dissenting clique

Synonyms | Synonyms for Faction: cabal | camarilla | junta | junto | sect

Related Terms | Find terms related to Faction: affiliation | age group | aggressiveness | American Party | antagonism | Anti-Monopoly Party | argumentation | band | battalion | bellicosity | belligerence | bevy | bickering | bloc | body | branch | breakaway group | brigade | Bull Moose Party | bunch | cabal | cadre | camarilla | camp | cast | caucus | church | circle | city hall | clannishness | clanship | clash | clashing | clique | cliqueyness | cliquishness | cliquism | coalition | cohort | combativeness | combine | communion | Communist Party | community | company | complement | conflict | Conservative Party | Constitutional Union Party | contention | contentiousness | contingent | contradiction | controversy | corps | coterie | covey | crew | crowd | Democratic Party | Democratic-Republican Party | denomination | denominationalism | detachment | detail | difference | disaccord | disaccordance | disagreement | discord | discordance | discordancy | discrepancy | disharmony | disparity | dissension | dissent | dissidence | dissonance | disunion | disunity | divergence | diversity | division | esprit de corps | ethnic group | ethnocentricity | exclusiveness | factionalism | factiousness | Farmer-Labor Party | Federalist Party | fellowship | flak | fleet | Free Soil Party | gang | Greenback Party | group | grouping | groupment | inaccordance | inequality | infighting | in-group | interest | interest group | intrigue | irascibility | irritability | jarring | junta | junto | Know-Nothing Party | Labour Party | Liberal Party | Liberal Republican Party | Liberty Party | litigiousness | lobby | machine | major party | minor party | minority group | mob | movement | multiple party system | National Republican Party | negation | offshoot | one-party system | opposition | opposition party | oppugnancy | order | organization | outfit | out-group | pack | part | partiality | partisan spirit | partisanism | partisanship | party | party in power | party spirit | peer group | persuasion | phalanx | platoon | political machine | political party | Populist Party | posse | pressure group | Progressive Party | Prohibition Party | pugnacity | quarrelsomeness | regiment | religious order | Republican Party | repugnance | rift | ring | rupture | salon | schism | school | sect | sectarianism | sectarism | sectionalism | sedition | segment | set | shrewishness | side | silent majority | Socialist Labor Party | Socialist Party | Socialist Workers Party | society | splinter | splinter group | splinter party | split | squad | stable | strife | string | Tammany Hall | team | third party | Tory Party | tribe | troop | troupe | two-party system | unharmoniousness | variance | variety | version | vocal minority | Whig Party | wing

See Also | camp | clique | coterie | ingroup | inner circle | left | left wing | old guard | pack | pro-choice faction | pro-life faction | right | right wing | splinter group

Faction In Webster's Dictionary

\Fac"tion\, n. [L. factio a doing, a company of persons acting together, a faction: cf. F. faction See {Fashion}.] 1. (Anc. Hist.) One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good. 3. Tumult; discord; dissension. They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves. --Clarendon. Syn: Combination; clique; junto. See {Cabal}.

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