league — OET · Shobdo

league

noun

1 he tried to form a league of chieftains:

alliance, confederation, confederacy, federation, union, association, coalition, combine, consortium, affiliation, guild, corporation, conglomerate, cooperative, partnership, fellowship, syndicate, compact, band, group, circle, ring;

bloc, faction, axis, congress, entente;

brotherhood, society, fraternity, coterie, lodge;

rare consociation, sodality.

2 we won the league last year | the football league:

championship, competition, contest;

group, band, association.

3 the store is not in the same league as the major supermarkets:

class, group, category, ability group, level of ability, level.

□ in league with

they confessed to being in league with foreign powers:

collaborating with, cooperating with, in cooperation with, in alliance with, allied with, conspiring with, leagued with, linked with, hand in glove with, in collusion with;

informal in cahoots with.

verb

Oscar had leagued together with other construction companies:

ally, join forces, join together, unite, form an association, band together, affiliate, combine, amalgamate, form a federation, confederate, collaborate, team up, join up.

league (1) Oxford Dictionary of English