noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
loose
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Rather than a unified central administration, there is a loose confederation of ministries.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the confederation moved toward constitutional government, issues of internal security were found to require careful consideration.
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Country size, for instance, appears to be related to the propensity to centralise collective bargaining authority within national confederations.
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On April 14 Clinton also secured the unanimous endorsement of the leadership of the AFL-CIO, the country's main labour confederation .
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The two trade union confederations undertook to refrain from general strikes in return for minimum wage and unemployment benefit guarantees.
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To the formation of a league, such as was the confederation , the state sovereignties were certainly competent.