noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an oath of loyalty/allegiance/obedience
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They swore an oath of allegiance to the crown.
swear allegiance
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Presidents must swear allegiance to the US constitution.
switch (your) allegiance (= start supporting someone else )
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Most of his supporters had switched their allegiance to his rival.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
political
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More important, the relation between class location and political allegiance is not linear and unproblematical.
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The majority of the electorate are only marginally politically conscious, and the personalisation of political issues and allegiances reflect this marginality.
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In the United States it transcends traditional political and cultural allegiances .
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This intervention reconstituted the boundaries of political allegiance .
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Reading the Hansard transcriptions without knowing the political allegiance of each speaker, it would be hard to tell.
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These contrasting values and political allegiances demonstrate the lack of any necessary correspondence between elite methodology, state theory and political values.
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The place of theft of the car is often a pointer to the political allegiance of the bombers.
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A three percent swing equates to one million electors changing their political allegiance .
■ VERB
change
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The amenable supporter who changes his allegiance with each new king.
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Only 11 senators changed party allegiance while in office in this century.
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My telephone has not stopped ringing with colleagues accusing me of changing my allegiance and forsaking my birthright.
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A three percent swing equates to one million electors changing their political allegiance .
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In the moments she had left, the room had changed its allegiance and there was nothing safe here any more.
give
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Loyalty to the person of the monarch gave way to allegiance to the abstraction of the state.
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Around my area, 50,000 men follow freemasonry and each has sworn to give his utmost allegiance to the Craft. 4.
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Men, it is often said, give their allegiance not to the government of the day but to the state.
owe
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The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and owe allegiance to a wide diversity of schools of thought.
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A number of communes were independent of any seigneur, and owed allegiance to the Crown alone.
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Should they owe allegiance and obedience to him?
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We can maintain with relative certainty that at least some of the mummies owed obedience if not allegiance to the Xiongnu shanyu.
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We owe no more allegiance , Peter.
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The Empire, a loose alliance of city-states and provinces owing allegiance to its Emperor, and the kingdom of Bretonnia.
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Knights owe their allegiance directly to their lord: the Elector Count of their province.
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But it is not only Marxists who argue that bureaucracies may owe their primary allegiance to a particular class.
pledge
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On the following day he apologized for his actions and pledged his allegiance to the government.
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With his hand on his heart and tears spilling down his cheeks, Charles Prince pledged his allegiance to the flag.
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When he is sworn into office he will have to pledge his allegiance to the republican constitution.
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When my friends or classmates pledged allegiance to the flag, I remained seated and silent.
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Only those who pledged allegiance to the musicians' brilliance, mesmerized by daredevil improvisations, were welcome.
swear
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In his teens, he learned to drink and swore an allegiance to the pint.
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All those present swore allegiance to Aenarion.
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Some employers tried to make potential participants swear allegiance to heterosexuality before they would pay their conference fee.
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Saving only the fealty which he owed to his father he swore allegiance to Philip against all men.
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They have sworn allegiance to the Warbutt now.
switch
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Timman unleashed some tactics and the watching grandmasters switched their allegiance .
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Behind the scenes, news producers and writers also switched allegiances and jobs.
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The reasons they switched their allegiance included anxiety about globalisation, a rejection of political corruption and fear of immigration.
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I know that yet again there will be a furore about players switching their allegiance as and when they see fit.
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I also noticed how Corin and Alleyn, once we had reached Royston, switched their allegiance to him.
transfer
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If Henry failed to abide by these terms his barons were to transfer their allegiance to Philip and Richard.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
owe loyalty/allegiance etc to sb
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A number of communes were independent of any seigneur, and owed allegiance to the Crown alone.
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The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and owe allegiance to a wide diversity of schools of thought.
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The Empire, a loose alliance of city-states and provinces owing allegiance to its Emperor, and the kingdom of Bretonnia.
transfer your affections/loyalty/allegiance etc
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If Henry failed to abide by these terms his barons were to transfer their allegiance to Philip and Richard.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Opposition leaders have proclaimed their allegiance to the new government.
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Their allegiance is still to the Queen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A number of communes were independent of any seigneur, and owed allegiance to the Crown alone.
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Female cuckoos bear more allegiance to a particular host, be it redstart or warbler, than do their males.
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It was difficult on everybody and there was an allegiance to Jef, but Steve had his own compelling aura.
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New ruling administrators owed allegiance to the state.
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Offices may have been relocated, but not allegiances.
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These might include songs, chants, or activities that express allegiance to political leaders or symbols.