voluntary association
Americannoun
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The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 independent countries, most of which have historical ties to the United Kingdom and its former empire.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Many leaders from the Commonwealth, a voluntary association of 56 countries, are expected to attend.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
Some historians see her as a monarch who helped oversee the mostly peaceful transition from empire to the Commonwealth, a voluntary association of 56 nations with historic and linguistic ties.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
It is a voluntary association of 54 countries that evolved gradually from the British Empire and has existed in its modern form since 1949.
From Reuters ● Jun. 23, 2022
It is not true that in all voluntary association between two people, one of them must be absolute master: still less that the law must determine which of them it shall be.
From The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
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