alliancer

English

Etymology

From alliance +‎ -er.

Noun

alliancer (plural alliancers)

1. One who favors and/or forms an alliance.
   • 1860 February 26, George Jacob Holyoake, The Reasoner, volume 25, number 9, page 71:

     The conjunctions produced by Mr. Gladstone's Budget, the publicans, the teetotallers, and the alliancers, are all rowing in the same boat in opposing wine licences to eating and coffeehouses, and it is alleged that immoralities will follow these coffee-house privileges beyond those which now exist in taverns.

   • 1899, The American Catholic Historical Researches:

     Doubtless ere many years St. George's day may be simultaneously celebrated by all of us “Anglo-Saxon” blood alliancers.

   • 1959, Current Events - Volume 5, page 15:

     We are the greatest speech-makers, pamphleteers, soapbox leaders, political alliancers of vested conveniences and the agitators against our own installed governments.

   • 2005, R. ul-Haq, Alliances and Co-Evolution: Insights from the Banking Sector, page 105:

     The question does not differentiate between 'serial-alliancers' who maintain a limited number of relatively short-term alliances and 'parallel-alliancers' or 'compulsive-alliancers' who, as a matter of preference, effectively outsource production, operations or distribution through the strategic alliance route.

Anagrams

• ralliance