Usually means: Pledge of loyalty to state.
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  1. oath of allegiance: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Oath of Allegiance (Australia), Oath of Allegiance (Canada), Oath of Allegiance (Ireland), Oath of Allegiance (New Zealand), Oath of Allegiance (Philippines), Oath of Allegiance (Sweden), Oath of Allegiance (UK), Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom), Oath of Allegiance (United States), Oath of Allegiance, Oath of allegiance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Oath of Allegiance)

noun:  The Irish (No 38 of 1924 ) a controversial provision in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which Irish TDs (members of the Lower House of the Irish Parliament) and Senators were required to swear before taking their seats in Dáil Éireann (Chamber of Deputies) and Seanad Éireann (Irish Senate) before the Constitution (Removal of Oath) Act 1933 was passed on 3 May 1933.
noun:  An oath of allegiance is an oath whereby a subject or citizen acknowledges a duty of allegiance and swears loyalty to a monarch or a country.
noun:  The Canadian Oath of Allegiance is a promise or declaration of fealty to the Canadian monarch—as personification of the Canadian state and its authority, rather than as an individual person—taken, along with other specific oaths of office, by new occupants of various federal and provincial government offices; members of federal, provincial, and municipal police forces; members of the Canadian Armed Forces; and, in some provinces, all lawyers upon admission to the bar.
noun:  The (Judicial or Official Oath) a promise to be loyal to the British monarch, and their heirs and successors, sworn by certain public servants in the United Kingdom, and also by newly naturalised subjects in citizenship ceremonies.
noun:  The Oath of Allegiance of the United States is the official oath of allegiance that must be taken and subscribed by every immigrant who wishes to become a United States citizen.
noun:  The New Zealand Oath of Allegiance is defined by the Oaths and Declarations Act 1957.
noun:  In Australia, an Oath of Allegiance or an Affirmation of Allegiance are oaths of allegiance required to be made to the monarch of Australia in some situations.
noun:  The Oath of Allegiance of Sweden (in Swedish called Tro- och huldhetsed which literally translates to Fidelity and Allegiance Oath) was an oath of allegiance to the King of Sweden that had to be taken by all senior public officeholders in Sweden before assuming office.
noun:  The (Tagalog: Panunumpa ng Katapatan) an oath administered to and recited by immigrants who wish to accede to the citizenship of the Republic of the Philippines.


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