Alliance (disambiguation)

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An alliance is usually an agreement between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests. It can also mean that there is an affinity or similarity.

Types of alliances may include:

Airline alliance, an agreement between two or more airlines to cooperate on a substantial level
Business alliance, an agreement between two or more businesses to work together for common commercial ends
Military alliance, an agreement between two or more countries to fight a common opponent
Political alliance, an agreement for cooperation between different political parties on a common political agenda
Therapeutic alliance, the relationship between a healthcare professional and a client (or patient)

Alliance, Alliances or The Alliance may also refer to:

Places

United States

Alliance, California, a former unincorporated community
Alliance, Indiana, an unincorporated town
Alliance, Nebraska, a city
Alliance, North Carolina, a town
Alliance, Ohio, a city
- Alliance (Amtrak station)
Alliance, Texas, a Master Planned Community
Alliance Township, Minnesota

Elsewhere

Alliance, Alberta, Canada, a village
Alliance, Suriname, a town

In politics

Alliance (Chile), a coalition of right-wing parties
Alliance Party (Fiji), the ruling party in Fiji from 1966 to 1987, now dissolved
The Alliance (France), a centrist, liberal, ecologist, and social-liberal coalition from 2011 to 2012
The Alliance (Hong Kong)
Alliance Party (Malaysia), a coalition from 1953 to 1975
Alliance (New Zealand political party), a left-wing party
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Alliance (Saint Martin), a party
Alliance (Sweden), an alliance of four centre-right parties in the Riksdag

Businesses

Alliance Air, former name of Air India Regional, an airline
Alliance Air (Uganda), an airline from 1995 to 2000
Alliance Airlines, an Australian charter airline
Alliance Entertainment, an American former distributor of music, movies and game software
Alliance Films, a Canadian former motion picture distribution/production company
Alliance Healthcare, a European wholesaler, distributor and retailer of pharmaceutical, surgical, medical and healthcare products
Alliance Tire Company, a tire manufacturing company based in Hadera, Israel
Alliance Trust plc, a publicly traded investment and financial services company headquartered in Dundee, Scotland

Automobiles

Alliance (1904 automobile), an early German automobile
Alliance (1905 automobile), an early French automobile
Renault Alliance, a subcompact manufactured from 1983 to 1987 for North America

In arts and entertainment

The Alliance (dancehall), a group of dancehall artists founded by Bounty Killer
Alliance (band)
Alliance Drum and Bugle Corps, an Open Class (formerly Class A) drum and bugle corps based in Woodstock, Georgia
Alliance (sculpture), in the centre of Cardiff, Wales
Alliance (DC Comics), a fictional organization of alien freedom fighters
Alliance (Firefly), a fictional government in the Serenity franchise
"The Alliance" (The Office episode)
Alliance Theatre, a theater company in Atlanta, Georgia
Alliance, a nation in the science fiction Alliance-Union universe of C. J. Cherryh
Alliance, a 1990 science fiction novel by Jerry Oltion in the Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens series
The Alliance, an alliance in World of Warcraft
Alliances, an expansion for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering from the Ice Age block
"Alliances" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1996 episode in the TV series Star Trek: Voyager
Alliances (novel), a Dragonlance book by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya C. Cook
Alliances (The Wire), a 2006 episode of The Wire
Stargate SG-1: Alliances, a 2006 novel by Karen Miller
Alliance (eSports), a eSports organization

Schools

Alliance University, Bangalore, India, a private university established in 2010
Alliance College, Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, an independent, liberal arts college which closed in 1987
Alliance High School (disambiguation)

Other uses

HMS Alliance, three ships
USS Alliance, two ships
NRV Alliance, a research vessel of the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation
David Alliance, Baron Alliance (born 1932), British businessman and Liberal Democrat politician
Alliance (biology), an informal taxonomic grouping of species or genera that have at some time been considered similar
The Alliance (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling faction
Alliance Jiu Jitsu, Brazilian jiu-jitsu association
Alliance (basketball), a Central Basketball League based in Alliance, Ohio, for the 1908-09 season
Alliance Pipeline, a Canadian natural gas pipeline