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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
faction
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rival factions/groups
▪ My task is to unite the rival factions within the party.
warring factions/parties (=groups of people fighting each other)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
conservative
▪ This was soon followed by a further defeat for the conservative faction in the Theological Commission.
different
▪ It seems most likely that, as often in Thessaly, different factions based on the great families held different strongholds.
▪ These different factions have debated the issues for many years on committee after committee without resolving the problems.
large
▪ As leader of the Liberal Democrats' largest and wealthiest faction, Mr Takeshita wields enormous clout.
main
▪ The Leadership Council was composed of the heads of the country's main mujaheddin factions.
opposing
▪ It is the path a load would follow if it was pulled by the opposing factions in the drawing.
▪ The referendum campaign had been fiercely fought by opposing factions.
other
▪ I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions.
▪ It must be stated that other factions existed also.
political
▪ Inevitably political faction was a feature of the minorities.
▪ No longer mere house organs for competing political factions, newspapers became influential and independent institutions in their own right.
▪ Dwyer also wanted to ensure that conflicting political and business factions did not undermine the regeneration strategy.
▪ Newspapers served largely as partisan promotional vehicles for political factions, and personal propaganda outlets for political figures.
▪ Amnesty International is independent of all governments, political factions, ideologies, economic interests and religious creeds.
▪ In a small Texas school district, two political factions were vying for control of the school board.
▪ Later in the century political factions still depended on association with particular claimants to the throne.
▪ Printed on hand presses, they had small circulations, and were essentially house organs for political factions.
radical
▪ However, the Colorados' Batllismo Radical faction, which hitherto had had one representative in the Cabinet pulled out of the coalition.
▪ Can it avoid self-destruction caused by the strong ideological differences among its moderate and its more radical factions?
▪ The stance on independence represented a victory for the party's radical New Tide faction.
rival
▪ This, then, was the situation when Mary succeeded to the throne, and the rival factions lined up.
▪ But the Bush White House is no longer the crutch on which the rival factions in Ireland should rely.
▪ The rival factions have carved fiefdoms within the government, with more powerful faction leaders claiming seats on the Council of State.
▪ Popular suffrage meant that rival factions would shout for their own candidate.
▪ On the other hand, Vanguard, published by the rival faction, took the opposite position in its January 1988 issue.
▪ This rhetoric needs to be understood in terms of the battle for control of the party, as rival factions take up distinctive stances.
▪ Officials said the fighting between the militias, which torpedoed peace talks last month, again endangers negotiations between rival factions.
small
▪ Or the myriad of small San Francisco factions that know how to stop anything?
various
▪ When he was prime minister, this meant holding the Motherland Party together by playing off its various factions against each other.
▪ At work there are various battling factions.
▪ The by pass row created various factions for and against.
▪ This set the various factions manoeuvring, while Ne Win also came in.
▪ Intrigues between various factions striving to make the king their puppet continued throughout his minority.
▪ He expressed his hearty agreement and desire for a compromise between the various church factions, and pledged his active support.
warring
▪ Thus the Labour Party became a battleground for its own warring factions.
▪ Steps are now being taken to get both warring factions around the negotiating table.
▪ The change began with the anguished division of the old Solidarity opposition into warring factions last year.
▪ Already they've been the target of attacks from warring factions.
▪ Indeed, he hoped they would provide the basis of a religion that could unite the warring factions of the Church.
▪ Envoys for peace are trying to bring warring factions together, and individuals and organisations are battling to feed the hungry.
▪ The statement followed assurances from country's warring factions that they would no longer block aid convoys or distribution.
▪ Best of all, the warring factions of the committee somehow came together on the night.
■ NOUN
leader
▪ Coups are plotted in small groups huddled around a faction leader and strategies decided at fringe meetings.
▪ The rival factions have carved fiefdoms within the government, with more powerful faction leaders claiming seats on the Council of State.
▪ The party's ageing faction leaders, says Mr Segni, have turned into pure power brokers.
rebel
▪ The fragile truce between rival rebel factions in the Solomon Islands came under threat after a third rebel group entered the conflict.
▪ But peace talks stalled, and pro- and anti-#rebel factions have clashed repeatedly.
takeshita
▪ The only woman included within the Cabinet was Akiko Santo, a television presenter and member of the Takeshita faction.
▪ The disintegration of the Takeshita faction was seen as a mixed blessing for Miyazawa.
■ VERB
divide
▪ At present the party seems to be divided into two factions, representing different specialist prejudices.
▪ He castigated members of the Central Committee for allowing the party to become divided by factions.
lead
▪ He had no political aims and did not lead a faction, although he sought lesser posts for a few clients.
▪ Buddhist monks led several of these factions.
split
▪ Parliament is split into factions with no single group in the majority.
▪ At this congress the delegates split into two factions.
war
▪ The warring factions are suggesting drastically different solutions to the crisis.
▪ The current winner that can temporarily dominate over all the other warring factions?
▪ There was acrimony, warring factions in the team.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The pro-war faction within the party condemned any attempt at negotiation.
▪ The warring factions are attempting to negotiate an end to the conflict.
▪ The whole of the country has been taken over and destroyed by warring factions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dwyer also wanted to ensure that conflicting political and business factions did not undermine the regeneration strategy.
▪ In a small Texas school district, two political factions were vying for control of the school board.
▪ Since then, factions of moderates and hardliners have battled within the movement.
▪ There are now at least half a dozen Akali factions, both moderate and militant.
▪ There was great rivalry between the colour factions, often with political implications.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faction

Faction \Fac"tion\ (f[a^]k"sh[u^]n), 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
faction

c.1500, from Middle French faction (14c.) and directly from Latin factionem (nominative factio) "political party, class of persons," literally "a making or doing," noun of action from past participle stem of facere "to do" (see factitious). In ancient Rome, originally "one of the four teams of contenders for the chariot races in the circus," distinguished by the color of their dress. Later "oligarchy, usurping faction, party seeking by irregular means to bring about a change in government."\n\nA spirit of faction, which is apt to mingle its poison in the deliberations of all bodies of men, will often hurry the persons of whom they are composed into improprieties and excesses for which they would blush in a private capacity.

[Hamilton, "The Federalist," No. xv]

faction

"fictional narrative based on real characters or events, 1967, a blend of fact and fiction.

Wiktionary
faction

Etymology 1 n. 1 A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group. 2 strife; discord. Etymology 2

n. A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction

WordNet
faction

  1. n. a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue [syn: cabal, junto, camarilla]

  2. a dissenting clique [syn: sect]

Related phrases:
Wikipedia
Faction

Faction or factionalism may refer to:

  • Political faction, a group of people with a common political purpose
  • Clan (computer gaming) or Guild, an association of players of multiplayer games
  • Faction (literature), a type of historical novel based on fact
  • Faction (Planescape), political factions in the game Planescape
  • Guild Wars Factions, a 2006 computer game developed by ArenaNet
  • FACTION 28, a music channel on Sirius Satellite Radio
  • The Faction (band), a punk rock band
  • Red Faction, a 2001 computer game developed by THQ
  • Faction (Sirius XM)
  • Factions (Divergent)
  • Factions (Xenogears)
  • Faction fighting, an English term for Irish mass stick fights, see Bataireacht
Faction (Planescape)

The Factions are fictional philosophically based power groups in the Planescape campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

Faction (Sirius XM)

Faction With Jason Ellis is an uncensored rock, punk, hip hop, and heavy metal music mixed channel on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 41 (previously 28), XM Satellite Radio channel 41 (previously 52, replacing Fungus 53 on November 12, 2008) and Dish Network channel 6041. It is also one of five alternative rock channels on Sirius XM Radio (the others are Alt Nation, 1st Wave, Lithium and Sirius XMU).

The station plays such popular acts as Metallica, Pantera, Avenged Sevenfold, Green Day, The Offspring, My Chemical Romance, NOFX, AFI, Beastie Boys, Everlast, Yelawolf, CKY, Sublime, Ramones, Rage Against the Machine, Misfits, Eminem, Wu-Tang Clan, Onyx, Sick of it All, and others.

Faction With Jason Ellis is also home to The Jason Ellis Show, Marky Ramone's Punk Rock Blitzkrieg, Tim Armstrong's "Tim Timebomb and Friends", The Voice Boyce Show with Dave "The Voice" Boyce, Do It Yourself Radio, Tony Hawk's Demolition Radio, and hourly FU's (Faction Updates).

Usage examples of "faction".

Even the Templars and the Hospitallers were divided, and the Italian merchant princes abetted one faction or the other as their own interests decreed.

Gradually, the French became more and more intransigent and this climaxed in 1292 when the papal throne became vacant and the French and Italian factions in the College of Cardinals cancelled each other out to the extent that they wrangled for two years without reaching agreement: no candidate achieved the required two-thirds majority.

Platonic school were used as the badges of popular factions, and the distance which separated their respective tenets were enlarged or magnified by the acrimony of dispute.

It is easy for faction and calumny to shed their poison on the administration of the best of princes, and to accuse even their virtues by artfully confounding them with those vices to which they bear the nearest affinity.

The indiscretion of his predecessor, instead of reconciling, had artfully fomented the religious war: and the balance which he affected to preserve between the hostile factions, served only to perpetuate the contest, by the vicissitudes of hope and fear, by the rival claims of ancient possession and actual favor.

Christian Socialists of the old Carr faction, who constitute a minority of far less than one per cent of the Socialist Party of the United States, have not only conceded the existence of an atheistic propaganda within the ranks, but have attacked it and utterly failed to suppress it.

He was aware that he employer, Stanley Broder, represented a splinter faction of the Tandesko hierarchy and not the main quorum.

Hir was aware that hir employer, Stanley Broder, represented a splinter faction of the Tandesko hierarchy and not the main quorum.

For Attus Clausus, afterwards called at Rome Appius Claudius, when he himself, being an adviser of peace, was hard put to it by those who abetted the war, and was not a match for the faction, fled from Regillum to Rome, accompanied by a great number of clients.

Those of the trading faction have declined to extend credit for planting to the southern lords of Defalk, when for the first time in a decade such plantings will succeed.

You can see how each strain of German propaganda corresponds to one existing, or at any rate potential, defeatist faction.

Notwithstanding the rapid increase of Christians under the reign of the Flavian family, Rome, Alexandria, and the other great cities of the empire, still contained a strong and powerful faction of Infidels, who envied the prosperity, and who ridiculed, even in their theatres, the theological disputes of the church.

Fifteen of the chief officers of the crown were to be continued, who, it was supposed, would adhere to the king, and, in case of any extremity, oppose the exorbitancies of faction.

During an attack by a renegade faction of the Facers, Kapera broadcasts a plea for help, and Nanoannie hears her.

The breakaway faction was eager to get as many Guild members onto its side as possible-especially the great Boba Fett and anyone associated with him.