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noun ˈfakʃ(ə)nˈfækʃ(ə)n 1A small organized dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics. the left-wing faction of the party Example sentencesExamples - Not the least of the current president's successes has been to keep the diverse factions of his party united.
- In my office, there are two warring factions maintaining an uneasy truce.
- The House factions must work together to find at least a win-win solution to the deadlock.
- With him gone, the factions are all fighting to gain the upper hand in a well and truly divided Cabinet.
- His father was able to control the various cliques and factions through nepotism and bribes.
- These days the factions hate one other, for the most part, simply because they have always hated one another.
- The country suffered as various factions within the ruling elite lobbied for power.
- Pedro used these powers when he could not compel political factions or parties to do his bidding.
- Since then, factions of moderates and hardliners have battled within the movement.
- At the site, battle soon erupted between three different rival factions.
- Close friendships between boarders and day boys was rare; both factions preferred their own.
- Suffice it to say that I come from a large family, in which three different political factions existed.
- The two also have not reached an agreement as to how to deal with the other armed factions.
- Most, if not all, of the contentious points have been resolved by the factions in the House.
- Violence and intimidation were almost daily occurrences as the various factions vied for territory.
- The worrying thing is that it's other factions within that same team who are doing the whispering.
- The candidates of the various factions of this one party system rely on vast sums of money to prevail.
- The idea of a competition for power among political factions was regarded with distaste.
- Keeping the warring factions behaving in a civilised fashion can be a very difficult job.
- Diplomacy, as you would expect from an executive answering to two family factions, is a Kiely strong suit.
Synonyms clique, coterie, caucus, cabal, bloc, camp, group, grouping, side, sector, section, wing, arm, branch, division, contingent, set, ring, lobby ginger group, pressure group, splinter group, fringe movement, minority group - 1.1mass noun Dissension within an organization.
a council increasingly split by faction Example sentencesExamples - Forgetfulness breeds ingratitude; ingratitude breeds faction; and faction leads to civil war.
- Do you feel that whole idea of faction within the Union movement is breaking down?
- The most interesting features of federalist thought have to do with the suppression of faction.
- What leads us into faction is passion, which is the ability of feeling to overwhelm thought, and interest, which is the ability of need and desire to overwhelm thought.
- They should instead realize that faction and division are healthy for democracy and necessary for intellectual growth.
Synonyms infighting, dissension, dissent, dispute, discord, strife, contention, conflict, friction, argument, difference of opinion, disagreement, controversy, quarrelling, wrangling, bickering, squabbling, disputation, falling-out, debate, division, divisiveness, clashing, disharmony, disunity, variance, rupture, tumult, turbulence, upheaval, dissidence, rebellion, insurrection, sedition, mutiny, schism
Origin Late 15th century (denoting the action of doing or making something): via French from Latin factio(n-), from facere 'do, make'. Rhymes abstraction, action, attraction, benefaction, compaction, contraction, counteraction, diffraction, enaction, exaction, extraction, fraction, interaction, liquefaction, malefaction, petrifaction, proaction, protraction, putrefaction, redaction, retroaction, satisfaction, stupefaction, subtraction, traction, transaction, tumefaction, vitrifaction noun ˈfakʃ(ə)nˈfækʃ(ə)n mass nounA literary and cinematic genre in which real events are used as a basis for a fictional narrative or dramatization. the current vogue for faction seems about to overwhelm narrative history Example sentencesExamples - Here we have a literary form that attempts to bridge the gap between fact and fiction, or faction, something like historical fiction.
- No, I'll tell you several stories that will help explain the difference between fact and fiction and its composite, faction.
Origin 1960s: blend of fact and fiction. nounˈfakSH(ə)nˈfækʃ(ə)n 1A small organized dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics. the left-wing faction of the party Example sentencesExamples - Suffice it to say that I come from a large family, in which three different political factions existed.
- Not the least of the current president's successes has been to keep the diverse factions of his party united.
- Close friendships between boarders and day boys was rare; both factions preferred their own.
- The country suffered as various factions within the ruling elite lobbied for power.
- The worrying thing is that it's other factions within that same team who are doing the whispering.
- These days the factions hate one other, for the most part, simply because they have always hated one another.
- With him gone, the factions are all fighting to gain the upper hand in a well and truly divided Cabinet.
- His father was able to control the various cliques and factions through nepotism and bribes.
- Keeping the warring factions behaving in a civilised fashion can be a very difficult job.
- Pedro used these powers when he could not compel political factions or parties to do his bidding.
- The two also have not reached an agreement as to how to deal with the other armed factions.
- Violence and intimidation were almost daily occurrences as the various factions vied for territory.
- The idea of a competition for power among political factions was regarded with distaste.
- Diplomacy, as you would expect from an executive answering to two family factions, is a Kiely strong suit.
- The House factions must work together to find at least a win-win solution to the deadlock.
- Since then, factions of moderates and hardliners have battled within the movement.
- At the site, battle soon erupted between three different rival factions.
- The candidates of the various factions of this one party system rely on vast sums of money to prevail.
- In my office, there are two warring factions maintaining an uneasy truce.
- Most, if not all, of the contentious points have been resolved by the factions in the House.
Synonyms clique, coterie, caucus, cabal, bloc, camp, group, grouping, side, sector, section, wing, arm, branch, division, contingent, set, ring, lobby - 1.1 A state of conflict within an organization; dissension.
Example sentencesExamples - What leads us into faction is passion, which is the ability of feeling to overwhelm thought, and interest, which is the ability of need and desire to overwhelm thought.
- The most interesting features of federalist thought have to do with the suppression of faction.
- They should instead realize that faction and division are healthy for democracy and necessary for intellectual growth.
- Do you feel that whole idea of faction within the Union movement is breaking down?
- Forgetfulness breeds ingratitude; ingratitude breeds faction; and faction leads to civil war.
Synonyms infighting, dissension, dissent, dispute, discord, strife, contention, conflict, friction, argument, difference of opinion, disagreement, controversy, quarrelling, wrangling, bickering, squabbling, disputation, falling-out, debate, division, divisiveness, clashing, disharmony, disunity, variance, rupture, tumult, turbulence, upheaval, dissidence, rebellion, insurrection, sedition, mutiny, schism
Origin Late 15th century (denoting the action of doing or making something): via French from Latin factio(n-), from facere ‘do, make’. nounˈfakSH(ə)nˈfækʃ(ə)n A literary and cinematic genre in which real events are used as a basis for a fictional narrative or dramatization. the current vogue for faction seems about to overwhelm narrative history Example sentencesExamples - Here we have a literary form that attempts to bridge the gap between fact and fiction, or faction, something like historical fiction.
- No, I'll tell you several stories that will help explain the difference between fact and fiction and its composite, faction.
Origin 1960s: blend of fact and fiction. |